Buying & Value
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Where to Buy Real Shungite and Avoid Carbon or Resin Fakes
Real Shungite is a carbon-rich geological material best known from the Lake Onega region of Karelia in northwestern Russia. It…
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Where to Buy Real Seraphinite and Avoid Dyed Green Fakes
Real Seraphinite is a dark green ornamental material valued for silver-white, pale green or pearly feather-like reflections. It is a…
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Where to Buy Real Septarian and Avoid Dyed or Resin Fakes
Real Septarian is a cracked concretion or nodule formed within sedimentary rock. Its distinctive internal pattern consists of polygonal sections…
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Where to Buy Real Selenite and Avoid Satin Spar or Glass Fakes
Real Selenite is a transparent-to-translucent crystalline variety of Gypsum. It commonly forms clear, colorless, white, gray, pale yellow or lightly…
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Where to Buy Real Scolecite and Avoid Resin or Zeolite Fakes
Real Scolecite is a hydrated calcium-aluminum silicate in the Zeolite group. It most commonly appears as colorless or white slender…
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Where to Buy Real Sardonyx and Avoid Dyed or Glass Fakes
Real Sardonyx is layered chalcedony containing sard-like red, reddish-brown, orange-brown or brown bands alternating with white, cream, gray or dark…
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Where to Buy Real Rutilated Quartz and Avoid Glass Fakes
Real Rutilated Quartz is natural quartz containing visible crystals of rutile, a titanium dioxide mineral. The inclusions commonly appear as…
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Where to Buy Real Rhodonite and Avoid Dyed Pink Fakes
Real Rhodonite is a manganese-rich silicate mineral or rhodonite-group material commonly recognized by rose, pink, red, salmon or brownish-pink color.…
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Where to Buy Real Rhodochrosite and Avoid Pressed Fakes
Real Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral known for raspberry red, rose pink, pale pink, peach, brownish pink and pink-and-white…
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Where to Buy Real Red Tiger’s Eye and Avoid Glass Fakes
Real Red Tiger’s Eye is a chatoyant quartz material with a brick-red, mahogany, rust or reddish-brown body and a moving…
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