Minerals

Gems and minerals from the mines and from geodes. Donate them to the Archive.

Item	Description	Sells for
Arcadia Emerald	Deep green and flawless. The crystal caves keep only a few.	400 bm
Basalt Glass	Black volcanic glass, sharp as a scalpel.	100 bm
Calcite	Soft, pale crystals. Water left these behind.	25 bm
Celestine	Pale blue strontium crystals from the ice caves.	100 bm
Chrysocolla	Sky-blue copper mineral, rare this far from water.	100 bm
Deimos Glass	Smoky impact glass from a little moon's old crash.	225 bm
Dry-Ice Crystal	Frozen carbon dioxide. Keep it in a cold box or it's gone.	100 bm
Elysium Topaz	Honey-gold topaz from the Elysium volcanoes.	225 bm
Fire Agate	Banded agate shimmering red and gold.	225 bm
Gypsum Rose	Petals of crystal that grew where water once evaporated.	100 bm
Hellas Amethyst	A violet gem from the Hellas basin deposits.	225 bm
Hematite Blueberries	Little grey spheres of iron oxide. Opportunity found fields of them.	25 bm
Ice Opal	A milky opal that glitters blue in cold light.	225 bm
Jarosite	Yellow-brown sulfate. It only forms with water around.	100 bm
Kyanite	Long blue blades that only grow under great pressure.	100 bm
Labradorite	Grey until it catches the light - then it flashes blue and gold.	225 bm
Magma Pearl	A glassy bead spun out of an eruption.	400 bm
Malachite	Swirls of green copper ore. The smelter's loss is the Archive's gain.	100 bm
Olivine	Green volcanic crystals, everywhere on Mars.	25 bm
Olympus Diamond	Legend says it came from the summit of Olympus Mons.	625 bm
Perchlorate Salt	The reason crops die in raw regolith. Rafael wants none of it.	25 bm
Phobos Moonstone	Said to have fallen from Phobos. It glows faintly at night.	225 bm
Polar Aquamarine	Clear sea-blue crystal grown in polar ice.	225 bm
Pyrite	Fool's gold: brassy cubes that fooled the first prospectors too.	25 bm
Red Jasper	Rust-red and opaque, banded like the canyon walls.	25 bm
Starfall Iridite	Areonite-rich crystal from the heart of a meteorite.	400 bm
Sulfur Bloom	A spray of bright yellow sulfur crystals.	100 bm
Tektite	Glass splashed out of an impact crater.	225 bm
Tharsis Ruby	A deep red gem from the Tharsis volcanoes.	400 bm
Utopia Jade	Smooth green jade from under the Utopia plains.	225 bm
Valles Sapphire	Blue as an Earth sky. Found deep in the canyon country.	400 bm
Void Diamond	A diamond so dark it looks like a hole in the world.	625 bm