Buying & Value
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Where to Buy Real Red Jasper and Avoid Dyed Fakes
Real Red Jasper is an opaque red, rust, brick, terracotta, reddish-brown or orange-red silica-rich material traditionally placed within the Jasper…
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Where to Buy Real Rainbow Obsidian and Avoid Coated Glass
Real Rainbow Obsidian is natural volcanic glass containing thin internal flow layers that display green, purple, gold, blue, red or…
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Where to Buy Real Rainbow Moonstone and Avoid Glass Fakes
Real Rainbow Moonstone is a transparent-to-translucent white or nearly colorless feldspar that displays blue, green, yellow, orange or multicolored flashes.…
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Where to Buy Real Rainbow Fluorite and Avoid Colored Glass
Real Rainbow Fluorite contains two or more prominent natural colors, commonly purple, green, blue, yellow and colorless zones. Its bands…
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Where to Buy Real Pyrite and Avoid Gold-Colored Fakes
Real Pyrite is an iron sulfide mineral with a pale brass-yellow color, metallic luster and distinctive crystal forms. It commonly…
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Where to Buy Real Purple Fluorite and Avoid Dyed Fakes
Real Purple Fluorite ranges from nearly colorless lavender through lilac, violet, grape purple and deep blue-purple. It may occur as…
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Where to Buy Real Prehnite and Avoid Glass or Jade Fakes
Real Prehnite is a calcium-aluminum silicate commonly found in pale green, yellow-green, apple green, gray-green, yellow, white or nearly colorless…
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Where to Buy Real Pink Opal and Avoid Dyed Fakes
Real Pink Opal is generally an opaque-to-translucent common Opal with a blush, rose, peach-pink, mauve, salmon or pinkish-white body color.…
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Where to Buy Real Picture Jasper and Avoid Dyed Fakes
Real Picture Jasper is an opaque, patterned lapidary material whose brown, tan, cream, rust, yellow, gray and black markings can…
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Where to Buy Real Phantom Quartz and Avoid Artificial Phantoms
Real Phantom Quartz contains one or more visible internal outlines that trace an earlier stage of the crystal’s growth. Each…
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