This stone of a very peculiar name and appearance might not have a long history filled with legends that some precious stones do, but it's certainly fascinating to study and...

When it comes to gems and precious stones, none is more impressive than meteorite. It's enough to think of its long celestial journey, age, and the probability of it ending...

Kunzite is a variety of the pyroxene mineral spodumene, which is a lithium aluminum inosilicate. It's a gorgeous gemstone closely related to the yellow-green spodumene called hiddenite and the yellow-gold...

Sulfur is an element of change, so sulfur crystals are considered to be power crystals for transformation. Their yellow color is the result of the presence of sulfur at the...

Silver is a white and soft metal that occurs in one of four forms “ as a native element, a primary constituent in silver minerals, a trace to a minor...

Rhodonite is typically pink to red with some black inclusions of manganese oxide. An uncommon material, rhodonite can only be found in several small deposits across the world, including Russia,...

Prehnite is typically yellow-green and pale-green, but it can also be colourless, white, grey, yellow, and bottle green. Named after Colonel Hendrik von Prehn (its discoverer), this gemstone is transparent...

Chlorite is a family of common sheet silicate minerals found in sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. They form during the early stages of metamorphism, and most of them have an...

Beryl is a stone with a transparent, translucent, and vitreous lustre. It consists of beryllium, rings of silicates, and aluminum metals. Beryl can be colourless but also coloured (depending on...

Also known as acmite (green-coloured, fibrous variety), Aegirine may occur in combination with other minerals, such as Tugtupite, Albite, Kakotokite, and Arfvedsonite. The colour of Aegirine stones may look like...