The blue beauty Aquamarine - Natural History Curiosities

The blue beauty, Aquamarine

What is Aquamarine? The name “aquamarine” is derived from two Latin words: aqua, meaning “water,” and marina, meaning “of the sea.” Aquamarine minerals and gemstones are a variety of beryl. Its color is blue to greenish blue or pale blue. It comes in shapes of rough pieces to beautiful hexagon crystal both. The Crystals can …

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Wonderful pyrite cubes from Navajún, Spain

Wonderful pyrite cubes from Navajún, Spain

What is Pyrite? Pyrite is a beautiful mineral that naturally forms into cubic crystal structures. As seen in the photo above, pyrite can become amazingly cuboidal, nearly perfect. These natural formations look artificial, almost alien in their perfection, yet they are simply the product of explainable geological events which occur all over the world. Pyrite …

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