Citrine geodes are rock cavities or vugs with internal crystal formations in colors ranging from pale yellow to deep orange and ranging from transparent to translucent.
Chocolate Opal is a very distinct opal variety due to its chocolate-brown base-color. Chocolate Opal is found only in Ethiopia and forged in the ashes of ancient volcanoes.
Rhodolite garnet is the name applied to a mixture of pyrope and almandite. Rhodolite tends to be lighter in color than most other kinds of red garnet.
Ruby is the red variety of corundum, the 2nd hardest substance on the Mohs scale, with a rating of nove. It is the combination of hardness and rich color that makes fine ruby so valuable.
It can transmute negative or stagnate energies into positive energy like a sunny day lifts the spirits. In this way it can be protective, letting you carry around a bubble of sunshine wherever you go.
Malachite is copper carbonate with distinctive green veining. Though not a particularly hard stone, it takes an excellent polish.
Azurite is an intense blue gem that gets its bright azure blue color from copper, and is related to malachite, which is also a copper carbonate mineral.
Black tourmalines look dark and deep. They are said to help effectively eliminate stress, fatigue, and turbidity and improve physical health and luck.
Ametrine is a form of quartz that occurs in bands of yellow and purple, a combination of the colors of amethyst and citrine.
It activates psychic abilities and intuition, connecting you to spiritual guidance and visionary awareness. It helps you discern and speak the truth, as well as discover your truest inner Self.
Hiddenite is a form of spodumene containing chromium. The green color varies from a yellowish to a bluish-green.
Sillimanite is a type of aluminum silicate that is related to both andalusite and kyanite. In fact, these three minerals share the same chemical composition but have different crystal structures.
The discovery of massive deposits of high-quality amethyst in Brazil has rendered amethyst much cheaper onyx western these days. High-end faceted stones aren’t cheap
The blue variety of pectolite has become known as Larimar. A very rare mineral, it has only been found in the Dominican Republic, where it was first discovered in 1974.