Do go see the movies and stills, from a guy posting under the handle “crystals of australia“… on Instagram.

His boyish joy — at every new find… is simply infectious.

[Do see at right! That’s an amethyst crystal fused to the top of a very large piece of ancient mostly clear quartz… weighing in at over four pounds! It was under about a foot of reddish overburden… likely just resting there, on what was the bottom of a silty, muddy water basin, since long before… the time of the dinosaurs (that is, it is likely about 850 million years old!).]

And I must say, he’s struck my imagination — reigniting the geologist — and the miner, in me — all these decades later.

This is what’s best… about the wild, untamed internet, and the Aussie outback, too!

And we will (expansively) declare this as on topic — under the Earth Sciences Dept. of this property.

Grinning….

नमस्ते