🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Please help me identify whether glass or gems

[nikkonas22]

Please give me your opinion what I have here

 

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[Almy]

Not much info to go on, perhaps that is why no replies. What is their source?
A couple of simple tests: Do they scratch glass? Do they taste like salt?