Scottish Crystals - After The Hunt

 Once You've Found Your Crystals - You Gotta Clean Them Up!

So there comes a time, once every few months, where I go through the (literal) bucket in my kitchen and scrub like hell for a few days. Cleaning up the rocks I have found while out on my car-ventures with Kai often turns out to be interesting all by itself. A lot of the time you don't see something properly until it's cleaned up. So though you may throw it in the bag because it has something you like elsewhere, a lot of the time the dirt is hiding something special underneath, too.

At least, that's what you hope for.

So this week was one of those times. I'm making the crossover into full time freelance writer at the moment and I'm doing it with the help of the notoriously slow British Government so it may take a few months. In the meantime I have rocks to wash!... and more time than ever to wash them with...

So I took to the blog, as I do, to show you some of the best examples I found during this wash up. Some of them will be going on my EBay page, some of them will be going to my private collection (which is getting silly) and some of them will go out as gifts because sometimes crystals just want to be with certain people. If you see anything you particularly like then get in touch, but do it quickly because all crystals are unique... which kind of just makes them more special.

Most of these are from around the Dumfries and Galloway area, a few are from the Cairngorms and my nice quartz spots... one or two might be from the south west coast where I have been amethyst hunting a lot this season. A little luck but nothing to write about so far. One of these days...

Until next time: happy crystal hunting in your home country. Let me know if you find anything awesome and add your pictures below!

A little Galena on one corner, pyrite on the other

Drusy Wanlockhead quarts

Pyrite mingling with quartz lines

Galena in blue and pyrite in gold.

Morion is what we call the dark parts of Cairngorm

Almost a point...Caitngorm smokey

That same quartz but with rutile crystals. This one is reserved for a friend in Germany.

 You can view some of the clearer smokey I mentioned above courtesy of YouTube.