You’re down below the surface, torch in hand, when the stone wall breaks and you see a purple glow. A chime echoes around you and bounces off all the crystals raining down like starlight. This isn’t a ...

You can make a spyglass in Minecraft with two copper ingots, one amethyst shard, and a crafting table. Place the amethyst shard in the top row and add two copper ingots right below it in the middle ...

Minecraft is, without a doubt, one of the most creatively driven games out there, giving players complete freedom over their worlds and what they build. Whether you’re diving into Bedrock Edition or ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. We'd always recommend using Minecraft enchantments, such as Fortune, to ensure that the diamond blocks you mine give you a greater number of diamonds ...

You are going to need a lot of blocks for this build so you should better get to farming. As for the blocks themselves, you can pretty much use anything. Cobblestone and Wood are the most common ...

Amethyst geodes—some stretching 5 m long—dot the ancient lava flows of Uruguay’s Los Catalanes mining area. The geodes contain calcite, colorless quartz, and agate, another quartz mineral. Large ...

It can often feel like health insurance was designed to be difficult to understand (though hopefully this explainer can help). Fortunately, new labeling on government healthcare exchanges will make ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There are dozens of different biomes in Minecraft, but one of the most popular to build in, especially early on, is the Taiga biome. This specific ...

People view the 12-foot tall amethyst geode from Uruguay hosted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Thanks to geological surveys and detailed chemical analysis, a team of ...

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Geodes are hollow rock formations often with quartz ...

Göttingen University researcher Fiorella Arduin Rode working in open pit mine of the study area, Los Catalanes mining district, northern Uruguay. Along with Ametista do Sul in southern Brazil, these ...

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