Great mats. The malachites are awesome
Here are some more references. The micromounts have a narrow depth of field and are shot at 1:2 with a 90mm macro.
First is Galena (the fracture is near cubic, so this is nearly pure lead with silver and other minerals causing the imperfect cubes). This is from the Keno Hill Mine, Yukon Territory.
Uhhhh!!! awsome blaine Thank you very much! I will try to do materials alike those minerals. Im on my way to complete tiger eyes and unakite materials. Ill post them soon.
Thank you again man.
I took some materials. Thank you veddy mootch yo. Sheeit man
dkzs,
I was cleaning up my favorites folder and ran into this link. Thought it might help. Lots of reference material and information on minerals.
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/bynameaa.htm
The blue one is a true gem indeed!
Frenchy.
One of my favorites.
dkzs - another link to good pics. I’m cleaning my favorites folder still. Don’t buy here though. They deal with the rich and dumb crowd. Divide their prices by 25% for what a person should pay and divide that by half for what they probably paid. Nice pics. Check out the Gem Crystals link for some great pics. There is a good pick of a gem Kyanite on there that I believe was on your list.
http://www.crystalarium.com/
Thanks dkzs, I’ m experimenting with your materials now. They are great!
If you get a chance could you do one for “Unobtainium” 
Thanks for the 2 links man, I will check them out.
…in your last link inside your “signature” :ex:
mhhh wich one?
Pack 2 part B
New set of 8 materials.
All zipped in one file. Click HERE to have them.
Enjoy.
Cordially
Luis Faus
Demo;
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Christmas presents :eek: 
big thanks again dkzs
Can’t wait to try these out dkzs, they look fantastic.
Yes, these are really beautiful materials! Thanks for posting them!
Yes indeed, christmas presents 
Im glad u like the materials, hopefully ill make some more and post them here
If anyone has any request or comment, please feel free to writte it here.
By the way, someone know why i cannot edit my first post ? I need to change the title to “31 materials added”.
Cordially
Luis Faus
Amazing work, dkzs small_orange_diamond
Merry Christmas to you, and a Happy New Year!!
Chris
Thanks very much Atwooki, Merry xmas to you too, and a happy new zbrush year
I have made a new version of the first image i posted for minerals as abstract art, with the materials i been creating untill now. It doesnt have any similarity to any of the minerals i have been looking, but the abstract concept is most importantly dominant in this image. Its an aproximation to reality in the most abstract sense.
Hope that you like.
Cordially
Luis Faus
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Hats of for that work.
Dkzs: Thank you for the mineral porn…:lol: Your work actually gets me high just looking at them…
When I was a child in the early 70’s, I was into the scienes, including geology. I had a nice little collection of specimens I found and also some I bought at natural history museums.
I lived near some woods where I played everyday. On the edge of the woods was a big 1920’s house, almost mansion sized, where an older genteleman lived. Us kids were kinda scared of him as we’d see him in the yard but were afraid to speak to him and he never spoke to us. A kind of wary standoff…
One day in late spring of '73 (I was 11 at the time), I was scavenging around the bushes on the edge of his property and I came upon a small pile of rocks. Curious, I dug in the pile and there were some awsome specimens in there! Mostly quarts crystals (rose and white). A few of nice size (2 inches).
As I was digging the gentleman came over with a smile on his face and introduced himself as Mr. Keyes. He asked me if I had an interest in minerals and I said I did and told him about my collection (small as it was, about 25 specimens). He then asked if I would like to see some specimens he collected over the years. I readily accepted his offer.
He led me into his home and brought me into a large room where there were a number of lit cases containing a plethora of minerals and gems of very fine quality. I ran case to case like a kid in a candy shop!
He laughed at my enthusiasm and took me on a tour of them. If I recall correctly, he used to collect specimens for various natural history museums.
He was impressed with my entusiasm for geology at such a young age and presented me with a 2 1/2" specimen of Prehnite! That was one hell of a gift! I still have it along with a small portion of my old collection (mostly minerals) which I had glued to the bottom of an old cigar box.
I used to go visit him a few times a year after that. We’d sit on his porch in the rocking chairs he had there, drinking cokes or lemonade, talking about rocks and our families. An amazingly cool old man.
One day, in 1977,(I was 15 then), I wandered over to the house and there was a young man there, about 20 years old or so. I walked up and asked him where Mr. Keyes was. He said that Mr. Keyes had passed on and he was Mr. Keyes grandson and that he had inherited the property. I was devastated. But I was glad that I got to spend some time with him in his last years.
As a footnote, the grandson, Jeff, was a graduate of Juliard and an AMAZING musician. He played at least 10 instruments with much skill. From woodwinds, to keyboards to guitar, he excelled at all. His speciality was Spanish Guitar and I’ve never known anyone as skilled on the guitar as he was. He taught me guitar for about a year and then sold the property and moved away. I never got good at the guitar, but that was due to my lack of skill, not Jeff’s… I still think of both of them occasionally. Two incredible people who made my life a lot more interesting.
I still suck at playing the guitar though…:lol:
Happy holidays to you and I hope my story gave you a little enjoyment,
Dickie
Thanks again dkzs!! more cool stuff…I really appreciate the time you are putting into these.
Dickie your story made my day if not dkzs’s.
I always love to hear those little bits that influence people…especially the acts of kindness by both the doner and the donee…as you probably made his day as much as he made yours…and one day hopefully you will do the same for some other youngster or two…well I suspect you have here in a way…but I mean the old hand to shoulder imparting of wisdoms won and ready to be past on.
thank you for that…nice xmas present.
may you both have a very merry holiday season.