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How to Display and Store Delicate Crystal Specimens Safely
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A beautiful mineral display should protect what it reveals. Learn how to arrange fragile points, soft crystals, and delicate matrix specimens without hiding them away. -
Why Calcite Grows in So Many Shapes: Dogtooth, Cave Calcite & Crystal Habit
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Dogtooth points, blush cave clusters, glassy rhombohedrons: calcite seems to speak a hundred visual languages. Here is the geology behind its remarkable shapes. -
How to Clean Crystals Safely: A Mineral-by-Mineral Guide
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Water is gentle to us, but it is not gentle to every stone. Learn how hardness, cleavage, crystal habit, and chemistry should guide the way you clean and display a mineral specimen.
