Translucent minerals
Translucent minerals are those that allow light to pass through, but not as clearly as transparent minerals.
Read moreBeautiful mineral merkabas
The Merkaba is commonly described as a three-dimensional geometric figure, specifically a stellated tetrahedron, consisting of two interconnected tetrahedrons, one pointing up and the other down.
Read moreFigures of smiling Buddha in mineral, what do we know?
The Laughing Buddha figure, also known as the Happy Buddha, is a common representation of the Buddha in Buddhist iconography. This figure is especially popular in Chinese culture and other East Asian cultures, such as Japanese and Korean.
Read moreHoney optical calcite (Mexico)
The birefringence of optical calcite is an optical characteristic that means that calcite has the ability to split an incident light ray into two rays, one that follows the normal path (ordinary ray) and one that is deflected (extraordinary ray).
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