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Want to see a whole new world at the tip of your fingers? Then check out the Darwin M2 by Beaver Labs: https://beaverlabtech.com/?ref=ukwrkscs&utm_source=affiliate *Want some other ways to help the channel?* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club Every Fourth of July all over the United States, small towns will blow huge budgets on extravagant fireworks displays. But what causes these awesome displays to have such extravagant color? Where do the colors come from? Minerals, of course! Gems, crystals, and minerals are directly responsible for the awesome colors you see in a fireworks display! Granted they are heavily processed into salts and other things, but each one has a purpose. But here's the thing, if something can't be grown it has to be mined. And mining products make up the vast majority of what goes into the awesome colorful lights you'll be seeing this coming Independence Day weekend! Anyway, be safe and have a great Fourth of July to those you in the States. And to those of you not in the States, well, fireworks transcend culture! Music Credits: "Upbeat Motivational Business Podcast" is 100% no copyright royalty free corporate pop rock track! ----- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3vBpc8... ----- Infraction music: instagram: / infractionimhere spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7qlhX... "Stylish Innovation Technology" is 100% no copyright background technology hip-hop music (royalty free)! ----- You can use this track for any projects and monetize it. -----

*Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club As I was helping my parents to clean out their old house I found a 1996 Smithsonian Crystal Growing Kit in my closet and it still had a couple of packets left from when I was a kid! So I'm going to grow these crystals for your amusement and then show you how you can grow your own with some items you may already have, or can get, for just a few dollars. This is a great experiment to do with your children to show them how many of our every day items have to mined. And how crystals can grow!

This video is all about the little things that might help a gem and mineral collector to justify paying high prices for a world class specimen. Gems, minerals, crystals, and fossils all have tremendous factors that determine prices. Let's talk about that!

Agate, jasper, chalcedony, and chert are all varieties of micro-crystalline quartz. Quartz is the crystal form of silicon dioxide. However each of these minerals are scientifically a little different...but also sometimes the same! We'll discuss those differences and more today! We'll also discuss what causes fluorescence (a phenomenon that can happen with some of these minerals) as well! *Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club

Can you tell what type of crystal or color will be inside of a geode before opening it? Unfortunately not! You will not be able to tell what crystals are inside of a geode until it's opened. You can make an educated guess based on locality and some context clues. For instance if I see a Las Trancas geode I can pretty well expect blue chalcedony and quartz of various varieties HOWEVER I have cracked exactly two pink quartz geodes from there. So... #geodes #crystals #gems #nature #geology #enhydro #water #science

This is a Las Trancas Geode and you can find several sizes on the website in my channel bio! Sometimes they have sparkly crystals like this. Sometimes they have dainty, weird crystals! But you'll probably enjoy the experience! Geodes are fun! By the way this one is highly fluorescent under a long wave ultraviolet light (365nm). This particular geode has dainty little quartz growths that are coatings a beautiful blue chalcedony. #geodes #crystals #gems #nature #rocks #minerals #science

This is a re-upload and fixed version of a video I did a few weeks ago after being allowed access to a gem, mineral, fossil, and crystal collection that started being put together over 50 years ago! None of these pieces are available, like I said, private collection. However a mislabeled fossil was pointed out to me and I felt the need to take down the video and fix it. While I was at it, I decided to redo the text graphics as well as track down the scientific names for some of the fossils that had been left a little ambiguous. I hope that you enjoy seeing wonderful amethyst crystals, fluorite you simply won't find anymore, aquamarine, amazonite and more! *Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club

*Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club Bismuth is an element bearing number 83 on the periodic table of elements. It's widely believed to be a transitional metal and bismuth is WONDERFUL. It has a tremendous amount of industrial applications due to it's stability, low melting point, low conductivity, and low toxicity. You can also grow really cool crystals from it. So let's talk about why you don't see natural bismuth crystals very many places, and how people make the crystals you do see.

Rock Bottom News for July 16, 2023 - A large and rather rare 450,000 year old mammoth tusk was recently found in a quarry near Cambridgeshire, England (roughly 75 miles north of London). You can find the full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/fos... Want more Rock Bottom News (Yes I hate myself for that one as well), check out the links below: Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK E-mail: j.m@mooneyfinemineral.com Mineral of the Month Club: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/product...

About a year ago I cracked open a geode with water inside. People lost their minds! I eventually cracked two others and had the water put under a microscope. Here are most of the slides from that. The water is filled with a variety of silica minerals (mostly quartz), some calcite, and some iron oxide and hydroxide minerals. The slides are under various magnifications as well as various lenses and lighting (lots of polarized lighting shots). Regardless, these were just so much fun and I just wanted to share them somewhere! Anyway if you are interested in more you can find me at http://mooneyfinemineral.com - or at pretty much any other social media platform!