Rose Quartz Crane Sculpture on Rock Crystal Mineral Base

A beautiful hand carved semi precious rose quartz stone crane pair, with carnelian beaks, fluorite crests, and brass legs. The pair of cranes are mounted on a rock crystal quartz min...

A beautiful hand carved semi precious rose quartz stone hummingbird pair, with brass beak and feet, mounted on a rock crystal quartz and green marble...

A beautiful hand carved semi precious ruby stone hummingbird mounted on an amethyst and quartz mineral specimen base. This exotic bird is a decorative combination of ornithology and ...

A stunning decorative mineral specimen, composed of a rock crystal butterfly with brass body, on a pink geode obelisk on black marble base. A beautiful acc...

A beautiful hand carved semi precious purple amethyst Macaw mounted on a white green quartz mineral specimen base. This exotic bird is a decorative combination of ornithology and geo...

This exquisite large antique Chinese circa 1880 carved rose quartz snuff box is a rare Maison Nurita find. Snuff boxes were first used by the Chinese and Mongolians during the Qing d...

A stunning deep purple amethyst cluster with unusually high peaked crystals on metal stand. The polished frame shows mineral layers developing from the rough basalt, to the grey/blue...

Suiseki rock-stone on a hardwood base. The stone has an exciting expression of flowers. Suiseki in Japanese, Scholer's Rock in Chinese and Suseok in Korean. Asian Zen tradition ...

18th century Italian cross adorned with tangerine quartz crystals on a tangerine quartz and crystal cluster base. The crucifix originally came from a church in Tuscany. The crystal quartz points replicate the original sunrays or halo around the cross. The piece is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the piece and the period shows that the Italian cross is originally 18th century. The 18th century Italian cross has been preserved and transformed into a figurative, contemporary work of art. With the combination of the precious minerals, the church artifact...

An incredible amethyst formation with central calcite "arch" and calcite spear. Two special calcite formations are shown here; the first is a beautiful arch covered with a blanket...

A rock crystal natural specimen piece aka clear quartz, decorative object. Dimensions: 3.5" D x 4.25" W.  

Pyrite (FeS2, iron (II) disulfide) is the most abundant sulfide mineral in the world. It is found literally everywhere, in igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks and in sedimentary rocks. It usually forms cubic crystals, with each crystal having six planes and razor-sharp corners and has a somewhat pale, coppery-yellow metallic luster. The ancient Greeks used pyrite to make fire. If you hit a piece of pyrite with a hard object, sparks will fly. Hence the name, πυρίτης (pyritēs) which means "for fire". For this reason the mineral was also popular for a while in the 16th and 17th centuries. Placing a piece of pyrite against a round file gave you just enough spark to fire a pistol of that era. Although pyrite is still primarily mined to make sulfuric acid, there have been more applications lately. For example, pyrite is found in Lithium batteries and the mineral is also increasingly used in solar panels. In the 1840'smMany of the inexperienced fortune hunters...