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rt395

2025-12-01 04:08

Mineral Mondays #88 - Chasing The Amethyst

The older I get the more important and truer the word perseverance becomes. As has been the case while searching for amethyst crystals in California. Located near the border of California and Nevada is

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2025-03-24 06:25

A Run, A Walk, Two Rocks And Some Food In Tokyo

I went downtown yesterday to see the new Mineral Museum my friends are opening in Ginza. Along the way I stopped off in Shibuya for a light breakfast at Starbucks. Normally I would order a coffee and a

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2025-03-17 22:36

Mineral Mondays #87 California Sapphires

A couple of weeks ago I re-re-discovered an important corundum deposit in California. The deposit has been talked about for 100 years, but due to it's size and remote location, it has stayed relatively

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2025-02-19 06:19

Falling Off The Edge Of The World - Three Tune Tuesday

I climbed a mountain today looking for sapphires & rubies, aka corundum. It almost killed me as I didn't bring enough water, the temperature reached about 78deg and I had on a heavy winter coat since

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shaidon

Silver Bloggers

2026-04-02 13:01

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Amazon and Weaponised Incompetence.

Amazon and Weaponised Incompetence The Undelivered Package I had a day off yesterday. It was perfectly timed to coincide with the delivery of 2 packages. The first package arrived before 9am, and I picked

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rt395

Worldmappin

2025-02-11 02:35

Gems & Gold At Mineral City In Tucson

I went to Tucson last weekend to buy some gems and minerals, meet up with Japanese dealer friends and see what incredible mineral specimens had been discovered since last year. The Tucson Gem And Mineral

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rt395

Shadow Hunters

2025-02-04 02:49

Smoky & The Bandit And The Banded Fluorite? Entry For Reflection Hunters #205

Yesterday I was heading home from the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows, but I didn't quite feel like I had enough mineral hunting. So I fired up Mindat.org to see if there were any interesting places to hunt

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rt395

Worldmappin

2025-01-06 03:08

Mineral Mondays #86 See Ya In Tucson The Largest Gem & Mineral Show In The World

Far away from Tokyo, in a foreign land lies Tucson(Two-sawn), a city in Southern Arizona. It was made famous by the many silver and mineral mines in the surrounding areas in the 1800's. In January and

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rt395

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2024-12-30 03:04

The Art Of The Stone - Mineral Mondays #85

A trend lately in Japan is accenting your office space or home with minerals and crystals, in part thanks to a Men's magazine, Brutus. They're nature's aesthetic artwork. So let's have a look at some of

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ahmadmanga

Hive Gaming

2026-04-02 14:03

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Digimon Survive [Let's Play] - 54 - Prologue of A New Route

Truthful Route: Part 01: My attempt for a storyline where all characters get to live!!! Digimon Survive is a Digimon Visual Novel with Turn-based strategy battles. It follows a group of children stranded

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rt395

Shadow Hunters

2024-07-25 02:04

Pink Topaz & The Excavator - My Entry For SMASh Round 331

I have to admit, I have a hard time finding shadow photos worth sharing, but I got one I liked recently. I'll get to it later in this post. First the story behind it. I was up in Utah and Nevada digging

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2024-06-30 21:50

Rock Lizard

I was up in the northern Nevada desert the other weekend hunting for copper minerals like malachite, azurite & chrysocolla. Hiking around various mines there were bugs and lizards everywhere it seemed.

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2024-06-02 16:48

Franken Finger, The Conclusion

Be warned, the photos below will show my finger in all it's mutant glory. With that said, here's what happened with my pinky finger up until today. I left off with the day after surgery in my last post.

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rt395

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2024-01-01 21:10

Happy New Year! 2024 This Is Fine

What a way to ring in the new year in Japan. If you hadn't heard Japan's West Coast suffered a large, 7.6 magnitude earthquake yesterday followed by a tsunami. Thankfully the tsunami wasn't big enough

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theshot2414

Top Family

2026-04-04 10:52

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🌊 Entre olas pintadas y recuerdos reales de mi tierra [Esp - Eng] 🌊 Between painted waves and real memories of my homeland

Saludos querida comunidad de #TopFamily Hoy, al ver la imagen de este concurso, algo dentro de mí se movió de inmediato, una mezcla de sensaciones, de recuerdos y de emociones que no se pueden explicar

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rt395

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2023-09-26 00:23

Mineral Mondays #84 - Mineral Photography

The more minerals my wife & I take pictures of the more I realize what an art form it is. This Coyamito agate kind of looks like a strawberry. Coyamito Agate - Mexico It takes not only a good photographer

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Worldmappin

2023-08-03 03:23

Escaping Civilization P.2 - Clowns, Quartz & Casinos In Tonopah, Nevada

Concluding my trip up to Nevada, I stayed in a small town called Tonopah, Nevada. Tonopah is an old mining town that was settled and prospered from the late 1800's to the early 1920's. It's known for the

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rt395

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2023-08-01 02:23

Mineral Mondays #83 - Bullseye Chalcedony

As I was out escaping civilization the other weekend I was able to stop by a locality that I've long wanted to go to, Gemfield. Gemfield is located 30 minutes south of Tonopah, just outside of Goldfield,

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rt395

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2023-07-27 01:47

Escaping Civilization P.1

It's been pretty hot in California, as I'm sure it is where you are too, I mean, it is summer. So I thought it would be a great time to head into the Nevada desert t get away from "Civilization".

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ismaelvarela

Sketchbook

2026-04-01 18:53

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From pixels to portrait: Yanira’s reaction made my day! 🎨✨/Del píxel al retrato: ¡La reacción de Yanira hizo mi día! 🎨✨

🇬🇧 English Version Hello, Sketchbook family! 👋✍️ I’m excited to share my latest digital illustration with you all. I designed this piece in Adobe Illustrator, and it is a portrait of my friend, Yanira.

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2023-06-21 02:23

Mineral Mondays #82 - No Rocks For You!

Yes, it's a Tuesday, but I have a good excuse. Yesterday I was invited to look at an incredible mineral & artifact collection that took me all evening to comb through. But, more on that later. I spent

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alienpoop

Alien Poop

2023-06-01 19:40

Alien nugget Identified - agate

Agate beach

Alien poop identified -agate. Although not sure which kind of agate… bahaha . Found this at agate beach goosberry falls state park minnesota this passed weekend. The water is ice cold but it was a calm

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rt395

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2023-05-09 04:47

Mineral Mondays #80 Big Fluorite & The West Coast Gem & Mineral Show

This past weekend was the West Coast Gem and Mineral Show in Santa Ana, California. It's a good sized show for all types of mineral collectors and dealers. One of my good friends was exhibiting so I went

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rt395

Proof of Brain

2023-05-02 02:57

Mineral Mondays #79 - A Rock Wedding

In another life, when I attended Dale Carnegie Sales Training, we learned one of the most important things you can do is to be a resource to your customer, in fact that was the top of the sales pyramid.

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