Weekly GeoJournal

 Quartz This is my quartz collection.  I want to explain a little bit about each one because from the picture it is hard to tell what they look like in person.  The dark round ball is Smokey quarts, it is dark brown and black in certain spots. When we moved it got cracked not sure how but it has a conchoidal fracture all the way around it on the inside of it. It has a vitreous luster. The chakra wand has a small quarts ball at the top and a long pointed tower at the bottom. If you look really closely you can see the fractures in the ball at the top of the wand. Where these have been polished they have a vitreous luster and feel smooth to the touch. The smaller of the two towers is a piece of raw quarts that has not been polished. To me, it looks more earthy but it still has some of the vitreous luster of the others. This one was a gift from my husband's aunt so I'm sure how it was cut, because of the way it was cut you cannot see the typical crystalline structure of quart...

Week 1:   A Little bit about Me Cassie Gillespie    This is a picture of my husband of almost 5 years come August. This picture was taken in Idaho, my second home along the Snake River, where the water had receded and left a stone-covered river bed. The second picture is from our boat tour in Africa on Lake Naivasha. We currently live in the Salt Lake Valley, in a small township called Kearns. These two pictures are of our fur children. Our cat Lucy who we adopted almost a year ago. Radar the Pitbull boxer mix and Banjo the Labrador retriever. All of my fur babies are rescues.  A few more things about me: my favorite color is purple, I am a psychology major hoping to go into Child Advocacy, I have a stone collection, and am an avid movie watcher. My husband and I love to travel and see the world. Almost two years ago we went to Africa and we have gone to Florida, where my husband grew up. I am hoping to learn more about the world around me and to learn more about the...