Here, from an Ontario warehouse. We stock 150+ chip varieties in five graded sizes plus 1 kg production bags, ship in 2–5 business days to most of Canada, and there is no minimum order. Because we import directly rather than reselling, 1 kg chip bags list from about $9 to $40 depending on the stone, before your wholesale discount.

No tax ID is required. You tell us what you make and where you sell it — a market booth, an Etsy shop, an Instagram page or a storefront all qualify. Approval usually takes under one business day.

None, and no per-style minimums either. That matters in this category: several bulk suppliers require five bags per style, which forces you to gamble on a stone before you know it sells.

Yes. That is what wholesale is for. There is no licensing, no royalty and no restriction on selling finished goods you have made from stone you bought here.

Our listings say so. Anything dyed, heat-treated or lab-made carries “Enhanced” or an equivalent note — dyed agate slices and enhanced citrine, for example. Trained gemologists check shipments in Kitchener. Dyed material is legitimate to sell; selling it as natural is not.

That is what the grading is for. Sizes are sorted to a published spec and restocked weekly with live inventory on the site, so a repeat order of the same grade behaves like a repeat order.

Yes — stone does not dissolve or react in epoxy. The three things that go wrong are optical (clear stones disappear), physical (stones sink) and chemical (porous stones release air and moisture). All three are preventable, and the table above says which stones do what.

Because quartz has a refractive index of about 1.544–1.553 and cured epoxy sits around 1.55–1.60. When two materials bend light almost identically, the boundary between them stops being visible. Use coloured or opaque stone, or let the point sit proud of the surface.

Pour in layers. Let a base layer gel until it is tacky, place the stone, then pour over it. Stone is denser than resin, so anything poured in one go will settle — that is physics, not a resin defect.

Porous stone holds air and releases it once covered. Druzy, geode, lava, howlite, turquoise and lapis are the usual offenders. Brush a thin seal coat over them, let it go tack-free, then embed.

Wash them, then dry them completely. Dust makes a dull surface and moisture makes a hazy, cloudy cure. Damp inclusions are one of the most common causes of resin that “went cloudy for no reason”.

No. UV light travels in straight lines, so anything sitting in the shadow of an opaque stone stays soft. Cure in thin layers and flip the piece, or use a two-part epoxy for anything thick.

Deep pours can reach 50–120 °C. Most quartz-family stones shrug that off, but dark fluorite can lighten from around 100 °C, and cleavage-prone stones dislike fast temperature swings. Pour soft or heat-sensitive stone in shallow layers.

Amethyst, citrine, kunzite, some fluorite and celestite are the documented faders — GIA notes that amethyst and citrine colour “can fade with prolonged exposure to intense light”. Dyed stones can fade too, because the dye fades even when the mineral would not.

Clear quartz, rose quartz, black tourmaline, obsidian, natural agate and carnelian, tiger's eye and most jaspers hold up in a window. That list is your suncatcher shortlist.

No, despite what most crystal blogs say. GIA describes rose quartz as “generally stable when exposed to light and heat”. The stone that genuinely fades is the much rarer crystalline pink quartz, which is a different material sold under a confusingly similar name.

Selenite and satin spar dissolve slowly at roughly 2 g per litre. Angelite converts toward gypsum with water. Fluorite is slightly soluble and should never be submerged. Pyrite corrodes in damp air. Everything above Mohs 6 with a non-porous surface is generally fine.

Only if it is fully encapsulated, and even then we would not put it under a sweating glass. A coaster is the single wettest product a maker sells. Use quartz, agate or jasper instead.

Not dry. Cutting, grinding or sanding quartz-family stone releases respirable crystalline silica, which OSHA links to silicosis and lung cancer and which the IARC classes as a Group 1 carcinogen. Work wet, or outdoors with a proper respirator. Malachite adds copper dust and tiger's eye is worse again. Finished, polished pieces are not the hazard — the dust is.

Handling stone is not the risk; making dust from it is. Malachite and azurite are rated high for copper dust, tiger's eye high for fibrous dust, and all quartz-family stones carry silica risk when cut dry. Nothing on our site is dangerous to hold, wear or sell.

Stone is not flammable, but anything in the melt pool changes how a candle burns, and stones can crack, shift or get extremely hot. If you sell candles with stone on top, test-burn the design and keep stone out of the flame path. Our witch-shop page goes into this properly.

Standard craft-fair guidance is (materials + labour + overhead) × 2.2 to 3.0, and impulse items sell best between $10 and $40. The number most makers are missing is material cost per piece — divide your bag price by the pieces-per-kilo count on our chip sizing chart and it stops being a guess.

Roughly: a resin keychain uses a pinch of crushed or tiny chips, a coaster takes 20–40 g, a standard spell jar holds 15–30 g, and a wrapped-tumble charm is one stone. A 1 kg bag of tiny chips runs to roughly 150–240 pieces.

In this category, price point beats product: $10–$40 impulse items move, and wrapped tumbles, keychains, small resin pieces and spell jars dominate that band. Larger statement pieces are worth having on the table because they make the small items look like a bargain.

September. Ontario shipping is 2–5 business days year-round, but the stones that sell out are the ones everyone else is also buying in October. Ordering in September gives you time to make the stock, not just receive it.