It’s time to get spooky with Howlite’s bone-like appearance and Whewellite’s hidden origins.

Howlite is an opaque bone-white mineral, marbled with black veins. It is also a semi-precious gem. Miners, who originally discovered Howlite while looking for gypsum, labeled the cauliflower-like mineral a nuisance. It often also gets marketed as “white turquoise,” due to its massive habit similar to the more popular gem. Whewellite is a mineral of mysterious origins. Along with clearly-geological origins in hydrothermal alteration zones, flakes can be found flirting with biology where lichen grows on marbles and limestones, on the surfaces of cacti, and even in kidney stones.

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