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Street Prophets Friday: Rocks (photo diary) [1]

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Date: 2024-06-07  

Welcome to another fluffy open thread, oddly enough, both fluffy and rock-hard this week. Alright, don't read too much into that. Just hop over the fold into a slideshow of my visit to one of the biggest museums of rocks and minerals in Europe.

Yes, this one goes out to all you rock crushers —

Last weekend, Mrs the Werelynx, Fabulous Mother-In-Law and I braved the downpour and visited the Gallery of Minerals in Dvůr Králové. Opened by Luboš Blaha in 2021 to display his impressive personal collection, it covers nearly 2000 square meters and displays over 6000 items.

The entrance hall

"This first pyrite I found when I was ten years old. From that time I've been collecting precious stones. They've become my hobby, passion and business.

A fossilized fish and a stone with veins of jasper and amethyst crystals

Much of the collection was organized by the country of origin of the minerals

Know what this one is? A rather curious natural form of silver!

The Czech Republic is famous for garnets, but few people ever see them embedded in rock like this.

Garnets collected from a local stream and polished garnets with a pair of garnet and gold earrings.

One of the few bits of English

One of the sillier displays— an agate in the shape of Africa? More like a porkchop I'd say.

Asbestos from Slovakia

How serious can someone get about rock collecting after nearly 50 years? Well, how about hunting down the actual mineral samples pictured in books on rocks and minerals that were published over a hundred years ago.

A complete fossil Mosasaurus skeleton

Lithium, mined in the Czech Republic

Crystalized gold from Brazil

A Colombian emerald

Fantastic fossilized shell in which each chamber is filled with crystals

Mark— what? Oh, Marcasite. Cool.

Thanks for stopping by.

This is an open thread.

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