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Stone Mountain, Watauga Reserve, Western Blue Ridge Mountains, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee. Photo by Van Miller

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Welcome to one of my favorite hikes in Chile, Laguna Cerró castillo. It was a spectacular day hike in the northern Patagonia region of Cerro Castillo. The whole area is quite remote and we had this whole hike only to ourselves.

P.S: You can see my brother @salmansabir1559 uttering random words which makes no sense.

unstoppableballofsass:

animal crossing fossil keychain//

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jlcrystalgemstone
🔥 fire ammonite!

tomjauncey

#Bolivia absolutely blew my mind. I’d heard of the Salt Flats before but couldn’t visualize the rest of the country. The country is so diverse, you’ve got the highest administrative capital city in the world ( #LaPaz), the largest lake in South America (#LakeTiticaca), the world’s most dangerous road (#YungasRoad), the snow capped mountains of Mik’aya, the Amazon rainforest, the largest salt flats in the world (#Uyuni) and so much more!! As an example this is the incredible #ValleDeLasAnimas - The Valley of the Souls. It’s a 30 minute drive from La Paz. Crazy to think something like this is right in the city! After the trip we were so inspired by the destination, and how little we knew of it before going, that we decided to make our first ever Beautiful Destinations Guide.

A nicely matched pair

One of the toughest jobs jewellers face is finding stones with colours to match to include them in larger pieces such as parures (gem set necklaces) or in suites of jewellery (eg a combo of ring, earrings, pendant and bracelet). Some will accumulate stones for years that fit together from many varied sources until they have enough to complete the design that they have in mind. It is also uncommon for stones from a single mine to resemble each other closely enough so these two rubies of deepest crimson hue (adding up to 45 carats) are an exceptional find.

Mined in a relatively new source of high quality ruby in Mozambique called Montepuez, from the gem belt that covered many countries during the assembly of the supercontinent Gondwana that produces most of the world’s best corundum, which I call the gemlands, see http://on.fb.me/1D548m8). The deposit is large, and the most significant find in decades.

Loz

Image credit: Gemfields

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brunocazariniphotography A short film by @brunocazariniphotography. Nothing cutter than a Penguin!. For more expedition…

Petition supporting a bill that would create a panel to seek out and remove certain names from official place registries in the US in an orderly and efficient manner.

An expert tour through the origin of animal life and the so-called “Cambrian Explosion” where the fossil record suddenly has the appearance of animal life with hard part 543 million years ago.