How can molten minerals deep inside the earth create such floating, cloud-like... more
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The bright, rainbow-like "flames" contrast dramatically with the... more
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Wonderfully fluid and almost 3D, this seems like coral painted from below with... more
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Goodness knows what this sensuously fluid and three-dimensional image reminds... more
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Iron meteorites are thought to originate in asteroids that date back to the... more
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In ideal conditions, quartz forms the perfectly clear six-sided prisms we can... more
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Thanks to its unique colour, turquoise was among the first gemstones ever to be... more
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This Baroque creature looks almost like a colourful duck taking off from water,... more
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We think the central image looks like a pearly oyster, while the... more
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Reminiscent, surely, of a huge iceberg towering over a calm, deep blue sea? The... more
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A stunningly dramatic image that appears to be lit from inside the mountains,... more
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This marvellous 'moment in time' was scanned from a small quartz tip,... more
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This is one of our most treasured images, and was produced by scanning with... more
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Looking at this image, can you imagine myself sitting on a beach watching the... more
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An understandably popular image, perhaps because of the warmth of its colours... more
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This exhilarating image was made from an irregular piece of quartz packed with... more
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Larimar was discovered only in the 1970s, and is found only in the Dominican... more
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This unusual crystal "heart" consisting of quartz and agate was mined... more
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In Oregon, the major source of Thunder Eggs, it is often claimed that the name... more
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A melliflous and tranquil image that looks like an underwater photograph taken... more
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This is not snow and ice, but quartz - the most abundant material in the... more
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Ocean jasper is the name for a variety of orbicular jasper - hence the round... more
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No real snow-covered mountain seen through trees looks quite like this, but the... more
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The more you look into this crystalline "gateway", the more there is... more
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This reminded us strongly of looking down on the Cumbrian coast at dusk, but... more
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