I love closeup pictures, so I thought a thread for some would be fun.

Here is a cool piece of Colorado Goethite.
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Colorado Zeolite.
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A nice Tube Agate from Del Norte Colorado.
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I would love to see any closeup pictures you may have.

This is the one on the CP homepage right now.
We try to change that pic every month.
Colorado Amazonite, Smokey Quartz and Fluorite (plus more just not shown in pic) combonation.
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Gunnison Crater Tektite, Colorado......Sure is beautiful stuff!
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Amethyst from South America. Check out our 100 piece puzzle of this picture.
All our closeup pics have been taken with a Canon Power Shot A85.
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Patterns in a very cool Oregon Thunderegg.
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A great view (cross cut) of how Arizona fire agate forms.

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Fantastic colors and patterns in this piece of Coprolite!

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Maybe this was the "dino" that produced that piece of Coprolite?

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Cool pics!!

Thanks Jack! I really enjoy taking them.
They make really fun puzzles and great desktop backgrounds also.


Here is a closeup of one of those Mexican Thundereggs.
mmmmmm Thundereggs..........got to love them!
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Here is some Moss Agate from an Oregon Thunderegg.

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Another Moss Agate Thunderegg, but with thicker moss.
I love the colors and patterns in this one!

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Here are a couple of cool examples of Petrified Wood.
Did you know we have petrified wood in all 50 states?
This piece if from Eden Valley, Wyoming. Beautiful stuff!

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Here is a great example of Arizonas Petrified Wood.
I wonder what the petrified wood looks like from your state.

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California Fire Agate

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Australian Boulder Opal

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Great pictures I am impressed with the quality of the shots. They are fun to look at. When you get a chance post somemore

Thanks amethystguy. They are fun to look at.

Here is the inside of a strange Colorado Thunderegg.

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Im just crazy over Crazy Lace Agate.......hehe

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Moss Agate

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That last Moss Agate almost looked like Gold in Quartz I thought, but wait.....
Thats what this is. Gold in Quartz slice from California.

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WOW!!!

hehe...Pretty cool isnt it Jim.

Here are a few closeups of some Botswana agates. Very cool patterns!

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Here is a sweet Colorado Agate
Hard to believe there are beautiful bands inside, helps seeing the lower right edge.

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VERY COOL INDEED!! I wish my camera would take close ups. I have some purty neat stuff too. The only problem is I have to put the thickest lens on my visor to see the detail. I'll even put two lenses on sometime. It's really incredibile to find unreal color and pattern that can't be see with the naked eye. I have one piece that looks like it has pink bands in it.But under closer inspection it is pure white bands with blood red spots all through th bands. The red spots are so tiny that it is almost impossible to see them. Oh! and for the gold include quartz.......I must reinterate WOW

They sound very cool Jim, we would love to see them!
Remember.....Like anything in life, the more you practice, the better you will get.

Here is a peek inside a Colorado Thunderegg we recently polished.

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It looks like an island in the middle of a magical lake. Bee-yoo-tiful!

Good imagination Faaus!

This is one that gets my imagination going......Another amazing Thunderegg.

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For that one Denise, I'll have to quote Janice Joplin and say: " Definitely COSMIC man!"

Awesome thread Denise! Love the close ups. We'll have to get another close up pic of the gold in quartz when it's been through the paces at the CP lapidary shop.

Here is another close up pic of a specimen we recently finished cleaning.
Twined fluorites and twined smokeys together on microcline matrix.
Fluorites are about 1mm each or so and the smokeys are about 2mm tall or so. Tiny lil' buggars, but how sweet!

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Keep em' comin' everyone, what neat mineral close up pics have you got stashed away?
Lets see them!

CP

Great pic Dan! Love Fluorites........

Fantastic colors and shadow bands in this Baker egg.
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WOW. Very pretty Denise.

Thats a cool Baker Egg,
this is a Condor agate from argentina , gemmy

Agates from argentina are fantastic! Nice one Bennie, even with its fractures.
It will polish out to be a great display specimen.

Here are a few more Colorado Fluorite pics.
Link also has more info on Fluorites.


Fluorites in these pictures range from 6mm to 3mm.

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Here is a closeup of the Thunderegg that was washed out by the pressure washer.
Sure turned out interesting.

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Good pics honey! Boy those T-eggs are sure something special!

Can't wait to see some listed in the Miners Market too.

So, we just moved as many folks already know...............We set up one of the 3 rock saws at it's new location outdoors with beautiful sunshine and balmy warm temps. Of course the first cut has to be a local rock. But then we had come across some lovely blue and greens while moving all them dad' burn rocks! One of the only positives of moving.......you get to see all the rocks in the collection again. Forgot all about some of those they had been buried so long!
Well, we are very fond of blues in stones..........and green is just as nifty. Here is a pic of the blue stone.
From what I saw on the saw (pun intended) this one will make some killer guitar picks too.

Enjoy...........Chrysocolla/chalcedony from very old stock and most likely from Arizona by the research we have done on it.
CP

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Fantastic stuff Dan, and great picture!!!
Thanks for sharing some of your rock with me, your too kind.

From beauty to the beast.....

This is the little Thunderegg color filling aliens caught in action.
It appears they were about to use red and yellow. Last seen in this Oregon Thunderegg.

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This little thunderegg sure has some great patterns!

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Here is a cool picture of Colorado Dendritic Agate. This is a close up of a Thunderegg piece we recently found.

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I got me a new toy yesterday. It's a hand held camera that takes super closeups. The first pic is tiny tubes in the edge of a botswana cab. These tubes can be see in the base of Denises little snowman. The second pic is of banding in a guitar pick. You can see the shadow effect in it. Also botswana. The third pic is of some really colorful lace agate. The last pic is of another banded agate cab that I have. The larger red spots in this pic are just barely visible with the naked eye.

Real nice pics Jim, looks like that close up cam works good.

Fantastic pics Jim! Love those close up pictures, they show alot more detail of the rock patterns.
Thanks for sharing them.

Thanks! Yea it's tons of fun playing with my little toy. If anyone
is interested here is a pic of it.

Very cool Jim. It seems to do pretty good! I figured since we show closeups of the inside of Thundereggs, why not show the outside of one.

Here is the outside of a Oregon Thunderegg showing its "busted cap" where it meets the inner agate inside.

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Love it!!

I've got a few more close-ups here. The first is mossy plume in a brazilian slab. The second is a crystal vug in the same slab.The third is of an unknown opal in sand matrix. Cool stuff!

I have a few more close ups here. The first is some cool plume agate. The second is banded agate. The last is dino bone. Enjoy!

Here is a cool plume moss agate closeup from a stone guitar pick I recently made. It has a small druzy pocket as you can see.
GREAT COLORS!

2.7mm (medium) in depth through the druzy pocket.


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Here is a close up of what looks like a patriotic fish.
Its a closeup of a beautiful Baker Thunderegg wet before it was polished. Love those Baker eggs!
Fantastic colors!!!

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Ok...I admit it, Im a thunderegg nut!

Here is a closeup of both sides of a New Mexico thunderegg. Sure is a beauty!

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I think the backsides (outter shell) are extremely interesting as well. Picture field of view is about 1" x 1".
Notice how even the little broken nodules on the shell contain agate.

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Got to love em'!!

Dans been holding out on us! Check out this plume agate he found a few days ago.
This close up picture he took is of a few wet palm sized pieces he found. Love all the different colored plumes!
One piece not shown even has green plume.

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MAN! I wish that I could find stuff like that around here.

I thought I'd add a few more pics that I took with my toy. The first is a tiny section of crazy lace agate. The second is brazilian agate. The third is the natural cleave lines in a piece of quartz. The fourth is rutilated quartz.Notice the rutilatation is hollow. I have had water sprayed in my face working it. The last is a spray formation in lace agate.

I decided to try to get a photo of the surface of this selenite crystal. I really had no hope in capturing it with it being water clear and very reflective too. But I got lucky!!!

Here is a close up view of a piece of Turritella. Field of view is approx. 1 1/2" x 2".

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