Latest Crystal Acquisitions?

I thought it might be nice to have a thread dedicated to crystals you have aquired recently, or crystal-related items. An "Oh! Shiny!" thread, so to speak.

Apologies if a similar thread has been previously written; I searched back a fair few pages to no avail.

Anyhow to begin I recently purchased a few new additions to my collection as pictured below:


Hematite, Sodalite, Citrine?, Moonstone?, Carnelian.

[moonincancer]

The one in the middle looks more like sunstone than moonstone:)

[moonincancer]

green moss agate, serpentine, muscovite

Green Calcite and Orange Calcite.

And I would venture that my Fluorites would qualify as "recent" as I got them earlier this year.

[Astral Explorer]

I actually did create a thread some months ago to show off your new crystals but no one used it and it fell a couple pages back where no one ever sees it unfortunately. BTW it's likely the Hematite is not real Hematite and it's actually Magnetite. Most stones being sold as Hematite nowadays are actually Magnetite and you really have to find a specialized dealer to get your hands on real Hematite. I have a piece of Magnetite and it looks exactly the same as yours.

As far as new stones I recently bought and have already received:

Danburite (my other one broke)
Aragonite
Celestite
Black Tourmaline
Yellow Apatite
Azeztulite
Strawberry Lemurian Seed
Moldavite x2

Stones I recently bought and haven't received yet:

Red Hematoid Quartz
Tibetan Quartz
Carnelian
Crocodile "Kambamba" Jasper
Septarian
Tanzanite

[Belle]

I've got some fab ones recently.

I bought some turqouise and some coral from Ecuador - which are amazing.

Then I felt the need to get some amazonite which has an interesting energy and I also put it wiht the coral as my sotnes to carry today.

I've just aquired a few newbies;

A beautiful piece of chrysoccolla, and a more rugged but still very beautiful piece of Iolite.. I went to bed with the Iolite on my brow and it felt like my third eye was receiving a very soothing massage! Was awesome!!

They're both for my mesa as I head off this week to finish my shamanic training.. These stones really feel right and will be going through ceremony and ritual with me and then will be a permanent part of my practice! :)

Loving all the replies!

Astral Explorer: is there any way I can distinguish between Hematite and Magnetite?

Over the past month I have bought far too many stones. I might aswell list them all since I wont be buying anymore for a while....I hope haha.

Orange Calcite
3 Smokey Quartz
4 Raw Rose Quartz
4 Black Tourmaline
4 Raw Amethyst points
Dioptase (which was a total bargain)
Black Tourmaline Pendant
Tumbled Sunstone
Onyx
Peridot
Large Raw Amethyst
Moldavite stone
Moldavite pendant and matching earrings
Moldavite pendant
Shungite
3 Natural Citrine
Green Sardonyx
Rhodonite
Angelite
Jasper
Seraphinite
3 Carnelian
Aqua Lemuria

A few of these stones I already had, but I like to have plenty of Smokey Quartz, Black Tourmaline, Citrine and Carnelian.

:)

[Topaz]

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Two lovely large purple hematite candle quartz. I heard them singing when I went into the shop .

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Have been working with these beauties for the past three weeks.