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Pink chalcedony noduleLocale: Yankee Dog Claim, Hidalgo, New Mexico Approx size: 2" Approx weight: 65g Pink chalcedony nodules, sometimes called "chalcedony desert roses," have been discovered across the southwest. They were prolific from this locale back in the 1990s, but today are much harder to come byat least with any size or quality. The material is known for its strong UV reaction and undulating ropy, botryoidal forms. Pink chalcedony often grows shapes like a nest,

but the larger crystals on this specimen have enough transparency they may technically be "hematitic" rather than ferruginous

or simply unfortunately (or… fortuitously

the spherulites are loose collections of thick needles resembling a firework

with some more opaque whitish layers visible inside creating subtle agate banding

highlighting the fluorite's natural cleavage planes

The point is striped with thin angular dark and white lines

I put a few pieces I broke into my tanks and the isopods have enjoyed climbing them

Approx weight: 113g

Approx weight: 130g avg (90–220g)

Approx weight: 141g

like a bald extra-wrinkly sharpei

It's possible they are actually extremely small fluorite crystals