Rock Photography Set XII

This morning over the course of a couple of hours I captured this latest set of images from the Rocks & Relics booth at the first Santa Rosa Gem Faire of 2013. I hope there is enough that is different here from past installments of this particular column to pique your interest long enough to look through it all.

Rocks & Relics booth

Brazilian amethyst along with some Tampa Bay agatized coral, Indonesian petrified wood, and some Acheulean  tools.

Amethyst with cacoxinite inclusions from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Large Shiva lingams from India.

Green aphophyllite from Maharashtra, India.

Carved fluorite hearts.

Botryoidal malachite from Katanga Province, Congo.

Moroccan selenite

Mix of quartz (irradiated and not) from Coleman Mine, Mt. Ida, Arkansas.

A large dogtooth calcite crystal as part of a cluster.

Lapiz lazuli from Afghanistan

Labradorite from Madagascar

Amethyst from Artigas, Uruguay

Ammonites with nacre, NOT ammolite.

Odd silicated concretions from Morocco.

Ocean jasper from Madagascar

Brazilian amethyst with cacoxinite inclusions.

Chrysocolla from Katanga Province, Congo

Moroccan onyx eggs

Mostly Indian zeolite minerals.

Mix of petrified wood from Indonesia and Madagascar as well as Brazilian agate slab and some Tampa Bay agatized coral.

Ruby in fuchsite from India.

Libyan desert glass

Acid-etched Mexican calcite

Moroccan selenite

Ocean jasper from Madagascar

Stilbite on druzy quartz on small chalcedony stalactites from Maharashtra, India

Acid-etched, iron oxide-stained calcite from Mexico.

Rubellite (pink tourmaline) in quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Cacoxinite inclusions in amethyst from Minas Gerais, Brazil

More quartz (irradiated and not) from Coleman Mine, Mt. Ida, Arkansas

Another Gem Faire Kim to go with the one in Salt Lake City, UT.

All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).