Lavender Rose Healing

Iolite is a magnesium aluminium silicate and is also known by its other name of Cordierite. Iolite can be recognised by its strong...

Azurite is a carbonate mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. It is unstable in open air where further weathering may...

Lapis lazuli is made up of the blue minerals Lazurite & Sodalite along with white Calcite and Pyrite, the gold sparkle seen in this...

Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper silicate and has a colour ranging from dark blue, through turquoise to green. Its hardness can vary from...

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-green mineral of hydrated copper aluminium phosphate. Being one of the first gemstones to be mined, it has...

Aquamarine is a variety of Beryl which is the mineral beryllium aluminium silicate and its blue / blue- green colour is caused by iron...

Jade is associated with the heart chakra. It creates harmony and balance by calming when over-active or stimulating when lethargic. It...

Strawberry Quartz is one of the lesser written about crystals available and there are some differing opinions on the mineral content and...

Rhodocrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral of the Calcite group. Its appearance is usually pink and white banded layers with its rare...

Rhodonite is a manganese silicate mineral. It commonly occurs in opaque compact masses with transparent crystals being very rare and...

Malachite is a carbonate hydroxide mineral and its green banded colour is due to the copper content. Individual crystals are rare as it...

Peridot is a type of Olivine which is a silicate mineral. Peridot is often very small in size and one of the very few crystals that comes...

Tigers eye is another member of the quartz family. The golden to brown fibrous inclusions within it are limonite and this gives it the...

Unlike all the other crystals that we have connected with so far, Amber is not a rock, but a resin that oozed from living trees in dense,...

Bloodstone, also known as Heliotrope, is a type of jasper or chalcedony, which is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz. It is green...

Red Jasper is another member of the quartz family. Jaspers are opaque microcrystalline quartz which come in many colours and often with...

There are a number of different types of Garnet but the one that I have written about is Almandine. This is the most common type of...

Obsidian forms from molten lava in the last stages of volcanic eruptions, the remaining silica minerals flow onto the surface and cool...

The composition of Sodalite is sodium aluminium silicate and it gets its name from the sodium content. Sodalite does not belong to a...

Blue Lace Agate is a type of chalcedony that belongs to the Quartz family of minerals. Agate forms in cracks in rocks or hollows formed...