lunedì, agosto 22, 2005

this is another dragonstone ball. it contains aragonite (the dark brown) and calcite (the crystalline yellow parts). supposed to be good for sigh i can't rem... it was info overload in there...

this is a mixture of two minerals - azurite and malachite. azurite is the blue one. hehe azul means blue in spanish btw.

i can't remember the real name, i think it might be the raw form of azurite... isn't the rich cobalt blue colour so nice? it stinks though. hehe... my cousins cannot figure out why i kept sniffing some crystals... they look sniffable rite? i think i might get sulphur poisoning...

ok, this is a mahogany obsidian snowflake. those white spots look a bit like the dendritic ulcers on the cornea in HSV infection. anyway, black obsidian is supposed to be the most powerful (to dunno do what) but she's only got the brown one. :P

i like this one too... it's called lapis lazuli, i tot i can see a castle in the midst of a snow capped mountain. hehehe... she wanted to give it to me, but then i dun really want. cuz she's had the crystal for quite some time already... so... nah nah... i think crystals become attuned to our aura or something after some time and won't be suitable for another person... unless it gets cleansed or sth. not sure. too lazy to go cleanse.

this brings me to the question of why i din take the photo of this REALLY beautiful FLAKY crystal. i mean, i've never seen such a flaky crystal. hahaha! it's self-cleansing too... so lazy pple like me dun need to cleanse it. it's called the lepidolite.

ah, found a pic online ->

NICE RITE???

yea, this is the spinel (red dot) on the matrix. the spinel is a semi-gem... can be used to make jewellery... i tot it's very cute, like a cherry on a cake with white icing. unfortunately, my cousins caught me trying to pry that stone out. heehee... *just joking*

pyrite... on a piece of rock! hah! this one's rarer, only found in spain, and they grow as cuboids, unlike the huge chunk below...

pyrite... very ugly. i dun really like. but good to use as a weapon!

ok, i went crazy over her box of celestites!!! a new shipment just came in, i think from branbundy mountain (not sure of spelling) from namibia, somewhere in africa. heard that demand for this is very high... quite rare... and when you shine a white light at the crystal, there's a sort of pale blue illuminiance over it. very cool...

quartz... bet u all very familiar with this. but i learnt something extra today. apparently, some believe that quartz was used in rituals long long time ago, where quartz was like a thumbdrive/SD card and wisdom/knowledge could be transmitted and stored within the crystal. some crystals have 'record marks', a raised equilateral triangle mark or an 'etched' triangle mark. looks like it can be man made, but it's supposed to be found naturally. also, the sides of certain quartz (those that were used as memory sticks) will have a barcode effect when brought to a certain angle to the light... quite cool... managed to see today. :D

this is just a quartz cluster... ignore that egg thing, it's the azurite+malachite polished stone. i think this cluster is quite expensive... dun dare to anyhow touch.

this is one clear quartz... but it's got a bit of smokey effect... v hard to visualise in this photo. the black mark was just a circle to note the location of the 'anhydrous' ie. water within the crystal. interesting eh.
phantom quartz. quite a lot of crystals have phantoms. which is actually another crystal growing within the crystal.. like this one has one crystal growing within another which is growing within another... if u look carefully enough, can see the outlines. there's the dendritic ulcer thingy... then a semi-opaque whitish quartz... another shadow and finally the clear exterior...

this is a double-terminated quartz from tibet. i think outside they'll sell at 100+... but my cousins sell at cheaper prices... anyway... can't rem wht it's good for... different crystals are good for different things... double-terminated ones are rare than the single spiked ones.

dog-toothed calcite. collector's item i think... not for sale...


labradonite. wand shaped... quite cool crystal... it's got green-grey-blue flashes all mixed in together. it might look opaque over here, but it's sort of translucent here n there... really beautiful flashes of blue when brought to the light.

unfortunately i can't rem the name... it's some quartz on something else... it's actually tiny little dark green crystals. looks v beautiful...

and this final one... whoa, like a chunk of metal spokes! it's quite expensive, has some use in the metal industry...

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