Buying & Value
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Where to Buy Real Tiger’s Eye and Avoid Fiber-Optic Glass
Real Tiger’s Eye is a chatoyant quartz-rich material with parallel fibrous structures that produce a bright moving band of reflected…
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Where to Buy Real Tektite and Avoid Manufactured Glass Fakes
Real tektites are natural silica-rich glasses formed when a large extraterrestrial object strikes Earth and melts surface rock or sediment.…
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Where to Buy Real Super Seven Quartz and Avoid Trade-Name Fakes
Super Seven is a commercial name applied to included Quartz, commonly combining colorless Quartz, Amethyst and Smoky Quartz zoning with…
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Where to Buy Real Sugilite and Avoid Dyed Purple Fakes
Real Sugilite is a complex lithium-bearing silicate mineral best known in the gem trade for purple, violet, reddish-purple, magenta and…
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Where to Buy Real Strawberry Quartz and Avoid Glass Fakes
Real Strawberry Quartz is natural Quartz containing numerous pink, red, reddish-brown or orange-red mineral inclusions. These inclusions may appear as…
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Where to Buy Real Stilbite and Avoid Glued Zeolite Fakes
Real Stilbite is a hydrated sodium-calcium aluminosilicate in the Zeolite group. It commonly forms pearly white, cream, peach, pink, yellowish…
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Where to Buy Real Spirit Quartz and Avoid Glued Crystal Fakes
Real Spirit Quartz is a distinctive South African Quartz growth form in which a larger central crystal is covered across…
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Where to Buy Real Sodalite and Avoid Dyed Blue Fakes
Real Sodalite is a sodium-rich feldspathoid mineral commonly sold as opaque royal-blue, navy, violet-blue or gray-blue material with irregular white,…
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Where to Buy Real Snowflake Obsidian and Avoid Painted Fakes
Real Snowflake Obsidian is natural volcanic glass containing gray, white or pale spherulites that resemble snowflakes, flowers or stars against…
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Where to Buy Real Snow Quartz and Avoid White Glass Fakes
Real Snow Quartz is a commercial name for white, cloudy or milky macrocrystalline Quartz. Its appearance ranges from translucent frost-white…
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