CatWithRocks

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Lapidary Artist. Geologist. Cat Online. Art Fight 2026 ---> Team Mystery

Photograph of a mineral specimen. Two excellent metallic yellow cubes of pyrite in a buff color marl. The edges of these crystals are sharp and well defined. This specimen comes from Navajún, Spain. The edge of the largest cube is 1.1 cm in length.
Mineral specimen of Red Beryl in a rhyolite tuff. The Beryl crystal is a purplish red color and forms hexagonal crystals. This particular crystal is largely fractured into three separate parts and is 8 mm in length. This specimen comes from Beaver County, Utah.
Traditional artwork of two characters, a minotaur and sheep lost in a labyrinth. The minotaur has brown fur and dressed in a plaid shirt, blue jeans, and a tan sun hat. She has a look of fear upon her face which shows her paralyzing fear of becoming lost. Next to the minotaur is a smaller anthropomorphic sheep sorcerer dressed fine black clothes with a red cape with serpent imagery. She is looking up at the minotaur in an attempt to comfort her. This is a traditional piece done with ink pens and color pencils. Adelaide the Minotaur belongs to @leafora.bsky.social Lillith the Sheep belongs to @sushiikando.bsky.social
Photograph of a mineral specimen taken by a digital microscope. The lustrous red crystals are the mineral Cuprite, a simple copper oxide. The small crystals display an octahedral habit. The largest crystal seems to show a modified octahdral habit. This specimen comes from Arizona.
Mineral specimen under a microscope. It is native copper with red, blue, and green oxidation on the surface. It is associated with green epidote. This specimen is from Michigan.
Team Mystery character card for Artfight 2026. In the top corner is yours truly, a grey anthropomorphic cat in herringbone cap and red bow tie. He is holding a magnifying glass on his right paw. He is meant to be dressed as a detective. Snapshots of four characters of mine are in the lower boxes. Moving left to right: Landon - A grey anthropomorphic house cat leaning over two boxes and staring at a shiny green rock. He is my main fursona and the self proclaimed "cat with rocks". Aaz - A green vampire lizard with brown hair and red eyes. He is dressed in a classic gothic vampire outfit. Dur (De'err) - An Aarakocra Ranger based off an American Kestral. They are a bit stupid, in an endearing way, denoted by the ellipses above their head. Kuzu Elahorn: A Fey Wizard. He is a homebrew D&D 5.5e race called a sheepkin which is a shapeshifting sylvan creature. He is dark skinned with white wool-like hair and rose colored eyes. The card includes several other details about myself and how I intend on playing which I will summarize below. User - CatWithRocks I Attack - Anybody! (Especially if you have cool rocks) >:3 Friendly Fire: Yes Revenge: Yes Mass Attack: No Characters I Have: Human, Anthro, D&D OCs
Photograph of a mineral specimen taken from a digital microscope. The specimen is the mineral celestine, a strontium sulfate, which are the clear double terminated crystals. This specimen is from Turkmenistan.
Photograph of mineral specimen. Blue colored amazonite which is a variety of microcline feldspar. It also has a light grey smoky quartz crystal grown with it. This specimen is from Park Co., Colorado.
Red lines showing where the planes of the crystal lattice are. These are where the schiller is occuring. The schiller in this specimen is copper colored.
A photograph of a mineral specimen. The image is of a rough yellow gemstone of Oregon Sunstone with planes of copper schiller parallel to each other. This specimen is from Oregon (if you can believe it!)
Photograph of a Fairburns agate. A rare variety of agate with orange, black, white, and red banding with distinct fortifications.
Microscope photo of the mineral Mordenite which are the white acicular crystals. This image was taken with my new digital microscope.
Photograph of a mineral specimen under a microscope. The mineral is a lavender colored transparent fluorite crystal. It resembles a cube however the edges are beveled in. This is a result of a modified crystal growth. This specimen comes from Arizona.
A photo of two objects. On the right is a orange and green moss agate cabochon. This cabochon was cut and polished by myself. On the right is a penny for scale.
Mineral specimen against white background. Quartz crystals clusters covered in a bright red hematite coating. The specimen is from the Pikes Peak Batholith, Colorado. Self Collected in July 2024.
Photograph of a mineral specimen in an acrylic box with foam. Brown to purple Axinite crystal cluster with tabular triclinic crystals.
A photo of a mineral specimen. The dark red translucent crystal in the center of the photo is Cinnabar and it is sitting on white rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite. Two clear Quartz crystals are also growing on the Dolomite and can be seen in the top right of the photo and directly beneath the Cinnabar. This specimen is from Hunan Province, China.
A microscope photo of a mineral specimen. The fine white needles are a mineral called Mordenite and it is in a pocket of the mineral Heulandite. Both of these minerals are in the zeolite group. This specimen comes from Skamania County, Washington.
A microscope photo of a mineral specimen. The central clear tabular hexagonal crystal is Lévyne-Ca. This specimen comes from Grant County, Oregon.
A photo of a mineral specimen. The bright green needle-like crystals are Malachite, a hydrous copper carbonate. The Malachite is on a dark grey host rock. This specimen was collected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Microscope photo of a mineral specimen. It consists of black spheres of Todorokite on clear needle like crystals of Tiptopite. This specimen is from Custer Co., South Dakota.
A mineral specimen of dark green translucent Vivianite crystal with excellent faces.
Dark blue prismatic Clinoclase crystals on green botryoidal Cornwallite from Pershing Co., NV Full view
A micro mineral specimen of dark blue lustrous Clinoclase forming prismatic crystals on a soft botryoidal green Cornwallite. This specimen comes from Pershing County, Nevada.
A mineral specimen of blue to purple Fluorite cubes sitting on grey Muscovite with a little bit of orange iron staining. White Quartz crystals are also growing on the Muscovite. This specimen is from China.
A mineral specimen of a small geode with white Calcite and golden needles of Millerite in the cavity.
A mineral specimen of Whitmoreite under a microscope. The Whitmoreite is the brown and yellow crystal in the center. It is made up of a brown sphere with yellow needles extending from the sphere. It's shape resembles a navel mine. The rest of the rock is made up of pale green Ludlamite. This specimen is from Grafton County, New Hampshire.
An alternate view of today's specimen showing a wider range. Several dark metallic crystals of Arsenopyrite can be seen with thin metallic needles of Zinkenite on the clear Calcite matrix.
Photograph of a mineral specimen taken with a microscope. The image is focused on a dark metallic, tabular crystal of Arsenopyrite on a matrix of clear and white calcite. This specimen is from Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.
Mineral specimen of rich, crystalline Malachite with a green-blue color on the face of a light grey rock.
A microscope photos of a mineral specimen. The orange transparent prismatic crystals are Montgomeryite and the fuzzy white spheres with small acicular crystals are Englishite. This specimen is from Custer County, South Dakota.
A mineral specimen of several long, dark brown Staurolite crystals in a white matrix. Some of the Staurolite crystals exhibit penetration twinning at 60 degree angle.
Mineral specimen of Zeunerite and Metazeunerite which are the tabular green crystals on the brown matrix. This specimen was collected from Majuba Hill, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA. Zeunerite alters to Metazeunerite through the process of dehydration. Although there is no major visual difference between these minerals, the alteration happens in the chemical structure at the molecular level.
A cut and polished mineral specimen. The exposed face shows an agate with red, orange, black and clear banding. The agate is in a oblong chert nodule, and was photographed in natural lighting. This specimen was self-collected in 2024.
A micromounted mineral specimen of transparent green crystals of Dioptase on what is most likely clear to white Apophyllite(?). This specimen is also from the Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona
A mounted mineral specimen from Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona. The specimen has sharp, deep blue crystals of Kinoite and clear crystals of Apophyllite. The Apophyllite is transparent making it difficult to see many of the crystals. The crystals are on a buff colored sandstone.
Several dark blue cubes of the mineral Boleite on matrix. This specimen comes from it's type locality of the Boleo District, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico. Boleite gets its name from the Boleo District.
Acicular crystals of light green wavellite forming intergrown balls on a dark grey matrix. The balls to wavellite resemble limes.
A specimen of metallic crystalline native copper with elongated, intergrown crystals .
Golden yellow needles of cacoxenite forming little spikey balls. The specimen is from Calhoun County, Alabama.
Sunset over the Badlands
Two very small garnets in a mica schist. The length of the largest garnet is 3 mm and the small garnet is 2 mm.
A blue and white Botswana Agate with a face polish.
On the left is a Montana moss agate with a pale blue color and dark dendritic inclusions. It is cut into a egg shaped cabochon. On the right is a Texas "Pom Pom" agate with orange and red plumes. It is cut into a teardrop shaped cabochon.
Red-orange hexagonal vanadinite crystals
Green gormanite crystals on brown siderite crystals. Specimen from Rapid Creek, Yukon.
Lilac colored Strengite from Polk Co., AK, USA
Rust colored iron-bearing dolomite from Arizona.
Light brown Tuperssuatsiaite crystals in clear Natrolite
Rhodochrosite pendant, which I cut and wrapped. From Argentina.
Rhodochrosite, Argentina.
Dark green vivianite crystal from Brazil.
Cacoxenite. Polk Co., AK
Yellow barite crystals with dark red sphalerite from Elmwood Mine