💎 Goodbye, 2024…
…looking forward to the crystals to be found, and new adventures to be had in 2025! Happy new year to all, and we wish you a peaceful and fun year in 2025!

#2024recap #goodbye2024 #hello2025
#rocksandminerals #rockhounding #crystals #fossils #selfcollected #phenomenalgems

🏙️ 🌋 Naples, baby! This underrated city positively vibrates with energy. Naples is a place of opposites and balance: raw and gritty, beautiful and polished, city and nature. It’s a blast! #mipiacenapoli #naples #underratedtravelspot #phenomenalgems

💫 Digging our own moldavite in the world-famous Besednice locality, Czech Republic! The largest piece was Keith’s find, and the rare twisty one was my find…the others we found together, and they’ll be available for adoption. A bucket list day for sure. 💫 #moldavite #besednicemoldavite

🏰 Prague had a great big city energy—but Český Krumlov was like a fairytale town, frozen in time. Český Krumlov castle rules the landscape, and the Vltava River winds around the town. Add in friendly people, great food, a rich history with Moldavite! #ceskykrumlov #czechrepublic

⛪️ 🌈 🤯 Prague is one of our favorite cities ever! This Czech beauty truly earns the name “City of a Hundred Spires”—this highly walkable city combines an eye-popping array of beautiful historical buildings with a vibe that’s both sophisticated and raw. #prague #czechrepublic #stvituscathedral

🌍💎 Mineral dream world at Prague’s Národní Muzeum! While it may be treated as an unknown in the US mineral market, this museum’s Czech collection proves that Czech Republic deserves to be considered among the greatest countries worldwide for minerals! #narodnimuzeum #mineralworld #mineralspecimens

❤️ Dream garnet-encrusted objects at the Czech Garnet Museum in Prague, Czech Republic! These diminutive red pyrope garnets encrusted amazing antique jewelry, crosses, handbags, jewelry boxes, and a stunning backlit spiral of tiny garnet crystals. #prague #czechgarnetmuseum #czechrepublic

✨🌀✨ Pyritized ammonite fossils were on the itinerary in Holzmaden’s famous Posidonia Shale quarries! Schieferbruch-Kromer Quarry is open to the public, and holds many amazing pyritized aquatic fossils from the Jurassic.
#ammonitefossils #holzmaden #schieferbruchkromer #germanfossils

🦖🇩🇪🦕 O…m…g!
Urwelt-Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, Germany, is a dream! The collection of Posidonia shale fossils exhibited here is among the best in the world. And the intense scale of the world’s largest crinoid colony?! 🇩🇪 #holzmaden #germany #germanfossils #urweltmuseum #jurassicworld

🦖 All things Spinosaurus at the Munich Gem Show!! My favorite dinosaur section was an awesome exhibit in Munich, and the scale was crazy to see in person. What a great exhibit for this dino-obsessed girl! #spinosaurus #mineralsandfossils #ilovedinosaurs #munich #munichgemshow #dinos #phenomenalgems

💫 My favorite meteorite specimen in Munich: this giant, otherworldly, nickel-iron meteorite sphere!! It was put together by man from material not of our world. This amazing piece will stay in my memory forever. #munichgemshows #munich #meteorite #otherworlds #spacestuff #phenomenalgems

🍋 🇮🇹 My favorite single specimen of the Munich show: this stunning and oh-so-classic Sulfur on matrix from Agrigento province, Sicily. The excellent habit and vibrant yellow shade sets the legendary Agrigento sulfurs apart from the rest. An Italian classic! 🇮🇹 🍋 #munich #rocksandminerals

Pinks and Purples: some of my favorite minerals, seen at the Munich Gem Shows! #rocksandminerals #munich #gemshows

Blues and greens: some of my favorite minerals, seen at the Munich Gem Shows! #munich #gemshows #rocksandminerals

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