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Pretty Spooky Things 🎃
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Amateur naturalist, serious collector, and appreciator of the unusual things our planet is capable of… based out of Tucson!

Purveyor of minerals, succulents, isopods, and information
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318 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Scheelite:
- A calcium tungstate mineral
- An important ore of tungsten
- Forms during contact metamorphism and in hydrothermal veins
- Named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist #minerals
A fine crust of brown scheelite crystals coating a double terminated smoky quartz crystal. From Horní Slavkov, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. Orange bipyramidal crystals of scheelite. From Carrock Mine, Cumbria, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Ant after tornado (ready for test assembly before patina/polish) 🛠️
A jumble of bronze ant pieces sitting on a gridded cutting mat.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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becoming this lady but for anti-gambling
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Truer than you realize (and this one is pumpkin colored lol)
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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310 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Pyrolusite:
- Mineral form of manganese dioxide
- A very common manganese mineral
- An important manganese ore
- Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings
- Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
Radiating groups of jet black to shiny grey acicular pyrolusite crystals. From Tennycape, Nova Scotia, Canada. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. Radiating groups of jet black to shiny grey acicular pyrolusite crystals. From Eigersburg, Thuringia, Germany Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Lovely, brick work is one of my favorite details of midcentury design!
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Double terminated "morion" quartz, which is super black and opaque. From Invercauld, Scotland, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. Double terminated smoky quartz, dark greyish black in colour and translucent. On a bed of hematite. From Frizington, Cumbria, England, UK. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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THIS year we did cupcakes again. Matt mostly did these. I helped some but I had to go get work done in me office so I didn't see the final product until this morning. they're so good ahahaha there is blood icing inside the cockroach that oozes out when you bite into em
a tray of cupcakes with sickly green icing, and dates with brown icing legs/antennae on top to look UNSETTLINGLY like cockroaches.
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM