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Texas Lone Star Collections Howdy 🤠 welcome to our page where we’re all about the incredible natural wonders found right here in Texas .

If you’re a Crystal / Mineral / Fossil fanatic , you’ve found your people . We offer a glimpse into collection and offer Specimens for Sale .

05/19/2026

Botryoidal chalcedony from Topaz Mountain, Utah is a textbook example.
6 million years ago, gas bubbles in cooling rhyolite left cavities. Silica-rich fluids later filled them layer by layer, creating these bubbly agate formations.
The host rock is famous for topaz + red beryl, but the secondary minerals are just as wild. ( got plenty of that too !)

Texas fossil hash — Exogyra oysters, gastropods and more . 105 million year old seashells + calcite crystals ✨When Centr...
05/19/2026

Texas fossil hash — Exogyra oysters, gastropods and more . 105 million year old seashells + calcite crystals ✨
When Central Texas was underwater, this was the sea!

05/17/2026

RUCKS CLAM - Pulled this fossil clam out of the dirt at Ruck’s Pit. Cleaned it up, hit it with the polisher, and now we’ve got a 1.5-million-year-old nightlight.
Nature did the crystals. I just gave it a glow-up.

05/17/2026

RUCKS CLAM- Pulled this fossil clam out of the dirt at Ruck’s Pit. Cleaned it up, hit it with the polisher, and now we’ve got a 1.5-million-year-old nightlight.
Nature did the crystals. I just gave it a glow-up.

05/16/2026

WAVELLITE - Nature really said “green grapes” and meant it 🍇✨
Found this wavellite in Arkansas — those spheres are called botryoidal growth and they form in fractures of quartzite and shale. This piece is small but the color is unreal when the light hits it.
Anyone else obsessed with green minerals?

05/15/2026

Arizona Apache Tear in Perlite Matrix
• Size: Matrix specimen w/ prominent nodule
• Locality: Arizona, USA
• Details: Glassy black obsidian tear naturally embedded in white perlite. Great contrast + texture .
• Display: Mounted on acrylic stand
Apache Tears are a form of obsidian said to bring comfort during grief. This one’s a stunner for any mineral shelf.
DM for info đź–¤

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05/13/2026

Central Texas geology hits different 🌞
Found this Pyrite Sun ! ( by the bucket )
It’s a pseudomorph: started as radiating blades of marcasite in Cretaceous-age shale, then converted to pyrite over millions of years. Same FeS_2 formula, different crystal structure.
One side is that lumpy botryoidal pyrite. Flip it and you get the perfect sunburst from the original marcasite. The red staining is iron oxide from our Texas clay and shale.
People chase these from Illinois, but turns out the Hill Country has its own hidden gems.

05/12/2026

Molten Bismuth → real-life geometry glitch.
Nature’s doing the most, and I’m here for it.

Graphic Mine Smithsonite / Sphalerite ( Zinc Ore )Magdalena District, Socorro Co., New MexicoOld-stock zinc carbonate s...
05/11/2026

Graphic Mine Smithsonite / Sphalerite ( Zinc Ore )
Magdalena District, Socorro Co., New Mexico
Old-stock zinc carbonate specimen from the famous Graphic Mine. Shows metallic sphalerite with secondary smithsonite and limonite/goethite. Great contrast and classic NM zinc ore look.

05/10/2026

Big, flashy muscovite mica specimen đź’Ž
Roughly palm-sized, killer golden color with that classic pearly luster. Sheets are thick and peel beautifully if you’re into that.
DM if you want to add some sparkle to your collection..

05/09/2026

( LAZURITE )Y’all… I’m still buzzing from this one.
Spent the day picking through the dumps at Blanchard Mine and pulled out this stunner.
That is NOT azurite.
It’s lazurite — the crystal form of the stuff that makes lapis lazuli blue. Blanchard is the US locality for it, and it’s been closed to collecting for years.
So finding sharp blue lazurite crystals on quartz, with that electric green malachite accent? Yeah. That’s a lifetime piece.
Pictures don’t even capture it. In hand, that blue glows. There’s a couple tiny pyrite specks in there too if you catch the light right.
NM rockhounds know: Blanchard blues hit different. đź’™
Self-collected, Socorro County, NM
Who else has dug lazurite? Drop your Blanchard stories below. #

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