Rocks and Minerals

Mother nature creates a great many beautiful things. Among them are animals, trees, birds, flowers and butterflies, just to name a few. But, alas, none of them, like we humans, last for very long. Oh, there are some trees, like the giant redwood trees and some cactus down here in the southwest that live for hundreds of years. I know that there are others not familiar to me. However, for sheer beauty and "life span", there is nothing that lasts as long and retains their beauty like rocks or minerals. Now credit must be given to a few humans who cut and polish some of them to enhance their inner beauty. It must be pointed out that the "inner beauty" had to be there in the first place, as it were. And more to the point, there are a great percentage of these stones that need no "reworking", like quartz crystals and amethyst that need no help to shine on their own.

Having owned a crystal store in Sedona, AZ, for 8 1/2 years, going to shows and so forth, we have seen some of the most beautiful. How ever, at this point it must be taken into consideration that "Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder! !" While behind the counter of our store, we have seen people go absolutely "ga-ga!" over a crystal (for instance), that we figured we'd never sell. But there was something about that particular stone that "punched their hot button!" Another for instance was that on 5 different occasions, not having the faintest idea what the stone was that they were holding, at least 5 different women started to cry. Now I'm not talking about a tear, I'm talking crying! What was the stone? Moldavite. Go figure. These are just a couple of things that we've seen transpire over those 8 + years. The list is long.

When mentioning rocks and minerals, usually the first that comes to mind are the precious ones like diamonds and rubies. To a died in

the wool metaphysical person, it would be quartz crystals, rose quartz

or amethyst. Most don't realize that there are over 3500 different rocks and minerals and they add to that list every year with a new discovery.

The ones that I've shown here on these pages are from Betty's private collection. The one at the top is a quartz crystal cluster from David Le Bow's mine in Mt. Ida, Ark. The "blue tinted" one is nailhead calcite.

Next down the line is celistite (about the size of a cantaloupe). On the following page that appears to be black is, in fact, barite (white blobs),

on purple fluorite and black sphalerite. It is about 12" x 10". The very bottom one is selenite, measuring about 8" H x 10" L x 1". You'll have to pardon my lack of professionalism when it comes to photography.

(I was going to take lessons and learn to be a Playboy photographer, but Betty said she wouldn't pay for the lessons).

There are people, who especially either live in or have visited Sedona, that will tell you that "This crystal is from Sedona!" (or Atlantis or Lemuria, or what ever). We can't remember when we last vacationed in either of the latter two—in this life time, but we lived in Sedona for 16 years, and

trekked around Sedona's outback. We never did find a crystal bigger than a pencil eraser, in it's natural setting. But, who knows....However, while doing a reading for a friend several years ago,

Betty was "told" that there was a huge crystal (to be correct, part of a BIQ crystal that had split into 3 pieces), hidden in the Sedona area and that it "was hidden in plane sight. True? Possible? Who knows. We had neither the time nor the energy to go looking. If it is there, then when the time is right, it will be found.

While we still have some minerals left over from our store, and some that we have purchased since then, what we do have is for sale. Should you be interested in what we do have at our disposal, let us know and we'll work on it with you.

Depending on what you want/ need, we still have contacts and may be able to locate what you're looking for.          Betty and Wayne Greene, Kingman, AZ