Rock and minerals macro photography: Smoky quartz with dark spots in crystals

in #rockhound6 years ago (edited)

Part 9: Possibly manganese oxidation as this was common at the Diamond Hill Mine in South Carolina.

Some of the crystals were clear, others had the oxidation on them.

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Links to video of scrolling past crystals, I got a few of them since its so pretty:

https://media.giphy.com/media/8P1kFRVWw3Xru7VKXt/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/3OqB2xQ4iayvzmFJY5/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/eATkWfGTUbj0EzXU7G/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/33JILWlDfeZ0vl7tq5/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/8Ajr7A4xGz5QRXXbcJ/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/1qh6PGzmwOKv3NuTZd/giphy.mp4

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All pictures look great but somehow the second and the third are my favorites. Well, the last one looks beautiful too. Aah, too hard to decide haha. Nice gifs too.
How big is the stone?

Hah no need to decide, glad you liked them all. I look forward to showing you more of what I find.

Yeah Giphy is good about keeping my uploads large, but I still cannot embed them. I tried again today and after uploading I get some error that flashes across where the upload percentage is.. But it disappears too quick and I cannot read it.

Its about the size of a small cell phone, so 4 inches wide by 5 inches long or so.. sorry I didnt take a reference picture with it.. realized that after I put them away :-/

Me too.

Maybe respectively hopefully you will figure it out, soon. (;

Kk, that is what I thought anyway. Np, was simply wondering.

Is there any picture effect in this or is this very natural. They look very orangish than brownish.
Smokey quartz is a very good healer for traumas also along with grounding.

@nainaztengra

The only effect would be the white balance correction. Yeah there is still some Georgia clay stuck inbetween the crystals so that may be what you see.

Good to know, grounding is important. I used to know someone that slept with a wire attached to him self attached to the ground.

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