Are these stromatolites? Specimen 1 is Pic 1-2 and specimen 2 and 3-5.DinoRipper24

Are these stromatolites? Specimen 1 is Pic 1-2 and specimen 2 and 3-5.

Saw these mushrooms growing in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, what are they? I am a fossil and mineral enthusiast but I do love biology and other nature as well!

A place to get genus/species identification from pictures of fruiting bodies! It helps to include good quality pictures of the mushroom in its native environment, the location you found them, photos of both the top and underside. It is also useful to know what the mushroom was growing on - wood, dung or on the ground? Nearby trees are also helpful to know. The more information you provide the more confident our IDs will be!

Are these stromatolites? Specimen 1 is Pic 1-2 and specimen 2 and 3-5.

Saw these mushrooms growing in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, what are they? I am a fossil and mineral enthusiast but I do love biology and other nature as well!

Just used this box and a bit of thermocol and blu-tack (a sticky, elastic clay) to set up this amazing display for a very rare specimen! Hematite with Hausmannite and Oyelite on Andradite from the N&#39;Chwaning Mines in South Africa!

Close-ups of my cabinet (and bedside table in the last pic) as promised!

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Cabinet work so far- still way to go! If you like it enough I can post close-ups...

Gary is free of worries. Gary loves play. Gary is a good boy. Say hi to Gary. Be like Gary.

Native Copper &#39;The Viper&#39; from the Rocklands Group Copper Project, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia!

Massive Glendonite specimen!

Brown crystals of Inesite on white Calcite from the Zinc Corporation Mine, Southern operations Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia!

Azurite sun on Kaolinite from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Gardiner Range, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia!

Vermiculite!

Have I finally obtained gold or is this chalcopyrite? I found it in a bag full of rocks I picked from a mineral market event where there was an all-you-could-take event. Specimen&#39;s location unknown.

Chlorite inclusions in Quartz with Cassiterite and Siderite!

Cassiterite on Quartz!

Stibnite with Baryte and Stibiconite from the Cizma Mine, Poiana Botizii, Băiuț, Maramureș County, Romania

Is this Libyan Desert Glass? Pics 1-3 backlit, pics 4-5 on a white surface (not backlit).

Coelacanth from the Australian Museum!

I have serious questions regarding to practicality of tumbling Anthophyllite asbestos into a palmstone, how did the person do this and why?

Mineral collector here- I was picking off some rare minerals that had entered a kid&#39;s rock scramble, and found this mildly terrifying thing- tumbled anthophyllite asbestos. Someone actually dared to tumble a fibrous rock into this unreasonably smooth palmstone.

Fluorescent critter! It glows blue under longwave UV!

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Natrolite with Chabazite-Ca in basalt! This rock feels too cool to be real!

Rare apple-green Augelite on Quartz from the Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad, Peru

Sodalite with Calcite and Pyrite!

Just used this box and a bit of thermocol and blu-tack (a sticky, elastic clay) to set up this amazing display for a very rare specimen! Hematite with Hausmannite and Oyelite on Andradite from the N'Chwaning Mines in South Africa!

Native Copper 'The Viper' from the Rocklands Group Copper Project, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia!

Have I finally obtained gold or is this chalcopyrite? I found it in a bag full of rocks I picked from a mineral market event where there was an all-you-could-take event. Specimen's location unknown.

Mineral collector here- I was picking off some rare minerals that had entered a kid's rock scramble, and found this mildly terrifying thing- tumbled anthophyllite asbestos. Someone actually dared to tumble a fibrous rock into this unreasonably smooth palmstone.