Amber

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Amethyst

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Carnelian
Carnelian is a form of Agate that has undergone changes through being heated deep in the earth. The best quality carnelian is used for the carving of signet rings and as the base stone in Cameo rings. Strong and resilient it is also the chakra stone for the Solar Plexus. Most Carnelian is now mined in India.

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Chrysocolla
What a wonderful mineral! Spheres of this stone remind us of the view of planet Earth from space the blues and greens creating continents and oceans. It makes fabulous jewellery and contains a lot of copper which is thought to have lots of health benefits.

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Citrine
Citrine is another form of quartz and is formed when amethyst is slowly heated deep underground. The depth of colour varies from pale lemon yellow to orange depending on  the amount of heat that was involved in its evolution.

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Garnet
Garnet is most often associated with India where it has been used as a gemstone for thousands of years. Most often a deep blood red it can also more rarely occur in orange or green forms. Hardwearing and lustrous, garnet has an enduring appeal.

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Hematite
Hematite (also spelt Haematite) is the main ore of Iron and has been used since the Iron Age to produce valuable metal. One form of Haematite is Red Ochre which was used in pre-historic cave paintings and is still used as a red pigment. A harder, silvery-black variety is used in jewellery where it shiny finish reflects the colours it is worn with.

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Jade
Jade is the historically the stone of the Orient and is the most highly valued stone still in the Far East. Green is a lucky colour in China and the best green stones are very expensive. An extremely complex crystal structure makes it very strong, so it can be carved into minutely detailed figures without breaking. More recently the Nephrite form of Jade is used since large deposits found in Canada have made it more affordable.

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Jasper
Jasper is an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz. There are dozens of different Jaspers from all parts of the world, often showing lovely patterning of swirls, lines, dots and spots giving rise to lots of descriptive names such as Leopard-skin, Orbicular and Landscape. Red Jasper is a particular favourite of ours. See also 'Mookite', which is a form of Jasper.

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Lapis Lazuli
Literally the stone of the heavens its deep blue colour flecked with fools gold being likened to the evening sky studded with distant stars. It is the source of the pigment ultramarine used in artists’ paints for hundreds of years, perhaps most beautifully seen in monastic illuminated manuscripts. Today most Lapis Lazuli comes from Afghanistan.

Mookite
Mookite is a very beautiful form of Jasper from Australia with blends of yellow, red, orange, ochres and purple. It makes particularly interesting jewellery and is an excellent carving stone.

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Moonstone
Always seen as a very soft feminine stone, the subtle lights and colours of Moonstone has always been admired. The best stones have a lustrous quality and reflect the essence of the moon, pale and luminous. Most Moonstone comes from India where pink, peach, and grey forms also occur. The highest quality blue moonstones come from Sri Lanka.

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Peridot
Peridot is a bright apple green form of olivine and is formed by volcanic activity. Many volcanic islands have beach sand studded with crystals of Peridot, but few of these are large enough to produce gemstones. These form deeper underground where the rocks have cooled more slowly. A lovely, vibrant stone popular in India.

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Rainbow Moonstone
Like Moonstone, Rainbow Moonstone is a particularly beautiful white form of Feldspar with wonderful flashes of rainbow colours. It has similar qualities to Moonstone but is rarer, and a relatively newly discovered stone from Bihar Bengal in India. Looks great with any colour scheme.

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Rhodochrosite
(Also spelled: Rhodocrosite) This beautiful banded pink and white gemstone, when at its purest, is a deep translucent rose red. Most of the worlds’ rhodochrosite comes from either Peru or Argentina where it is associated with silver mines. The pink colour comes from manganese.

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Seraphinite
The crystal structure of Seraphinite gives it a cats-eye shimmer as the pale and olive green streaks merge and separate. It is quite a soft stone so it must be worn with awareness as jewellery. Discovered in 1851 our source of this stone is Siberia and the Ural mountains of Russia.

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Super Seven
Crystal healers love this stone because Super Seven (also known as Melody's Stone or Sacred Seven) retains its energy and clarity and never needs cleansing or energizing. Also, this miraculous stone exhibits properties of all the stones in the combination, i.e., amethyst, smokey quartz, clear quartz, rutile, geothite, lepidochrosite and cacoxenite. Consequently it is a powerful stone for crystal healing and is used to balance and energize all seven Chakras.

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Tiger Eye
Tiger-eye is an earthy golden brown stone that flashes like an eye when viewed from different angles. It is one of the gemstones more popular with men perhaps due its’ association with the hunting spirit. Most Tiger-eye comes from South Africa, Australia and USA and is also more rarely found as blue or red forms.

Topaz
Topaz is a hard wearing stone with a mellow lustre. Some the worlds' largest crystals are of topaz. Because it is so tough it is often found as water-worn pebbles. There is a variety of colours, from colourless to yellow,green, violet,blue and pink.
The colour changes with heat, some colourless stones becoming blue, the shade varying with temperature.Imperial topaz from Brazil is famously bright and fiery.

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Tourmaline
A very complex mineral composition means that Tourmalines are found in a range of colours depending on the fine balance of elements in each stone sometimes changing within a single stone. Black is commonest colour followed by various greens, pinks, blues, yellows and colourless. Green stones with pink centres are known as watermelon. As a result, according to the chakra system it affects all parts of the body, and of course there is always a tourmaline to go fashionably with any colour.

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Turquoise
Like amber, Turquoise has a long history of use by man as a much valued gemstone and traded across continents by ancient man. It is often said to bring good luck to travellers. Native Americans associate Turquoise with the spirit of the sky and some of the finest stones come from the deserts of Arizona, but also from Iran and the Tibetan Himalayas.

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