#crystal specimens

[natureselements]

✨Candle Quartz cluster, a stunning beauty from brazil. Check out all of her details here✨

[overthemoonminerals]

Smoky Amethyst Scepter from the Goboboseb Mountains in Namibia

[sylverra]

We're Back!

I'm so excited to announce that we're finally reopening checkout!

It's been a long road through treatment, and I still have quite a ways to go, but as of my surgery in June I'm officially cancer free! I'm so eager to get back to this shop and all of you, and I thank you so, so deeply for your patience.

To kick things off, I'm putting up a few coupons!

OPEN15 - 15% off $20+ OPEN20 - 20% off $30+ OPEN25 - 25% off $40+ OPEN30 - 30% off $60+

These codes are good for all items in the Crystals, Jewelry and Home Decor collections and exclude Apothecary items.

Need something extra to bump you up to the next coupon? Check out our Under $15 and Under $5 collections!

Thank you again, and please feel free to reach out if there's anything at all that I can help with. Happy shopping! 💜💚

✨Browse the full catalog →

All codes expire 9/31/24 at 11:59 pm ET. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Free shipping applies to US orders with a total of $50+ after discount.

[srlgemstone]

Pink Beauty - Fortification & Quartz Agates

[theoldbone]

Tungsten crystal, photo by Vincent Bourgoin

[tbirdstones]

Mining magic in the mountains!

[minerali-list]

Malachite 

Congo

Photo:  Ekaterina  Pakhneva

[cristalprince]

[bithegarden]

heavenly refractions ✨🦋

[foragedmoonlight]

DummyThicc Smokey Quartz Pendant

[charyou-tree]

Another rock show, another great find!

My wife and I drove to the other side of town for another rock and mineral club’s show, and I feel like I stole the stuff I came home with. First, while my wife and I were browsing a display of jewelry with cut stones, the woman running the stand commented on my opal necklace. She looked more than a little surprised when I told her I cut the stone myself, using a diamond-grit knife sharpening block of all things. I could only say "I know that's the wrong way to do that, but I wasn't going to buy a $500 cutting wheel to do one stone!" (it was a lockdown project)

Chatted for a while with another dealer about his small display of unusual faceted stones. He had this one enormous almost 40 carat faceted peridot bigger than my thumbnail. I didn't know they came that big! I don't even want to know what he'd ask for that... But he was so nice and spent so long talking to us, I felt like I should buy something. He had this cute little pink tourmaline crystal for only $14 so I grabbed that to say thanks.

But the real show was still to come.

I had my eye on a bright mint green dioptase specimen another dealer had, but it was a couple hundred bucks, and I didn't really want to spend that much on a rock. While I was mulling that over, I saw a dealer I’ve seen before at a couple other local mineral shows was back with his amazing stock of Ethiopian opals. He had a couple giant pieces of amazingly clear crystal opal the size of my fist sitting in a bowl of water. I turned them over to get a look at the play of color, but I was afraid to pick them up and maybe drop a multi-thousand dollar rock.

However, he also had trays of smaller pieces sorted by price per carat. It was like a box of bifrost shrapnel, glittering in overlapping rainbow colors under the bright lights in his booth (very important when you're selling opal!). One particular piece caught my eye, but I was afraid to ask what he wanted for it, last time I tried that with one of his pieces it was >$300 and I had to put it back :( . When he told me that this beautiful crystal opal was only $62 I had to have it.

Like, sure, it has a couple cracks in it and its a funny shape, but I'm not going to cut it so who cares? LOOK AT THOSE OVERLAPPING LAYERS OF RAINBOW IRIDESCENCE! I turn it around at the end of the video because that same side of the stone is blue, green, yellow, or even red depending how you look at it and how the light is oriented. Sometimes you can see multiple colors through each other. Its doing what I associate with good opals, and completely saturating the red/green/blue pixels of my phone camera when the play of color is lined up right.

This is the opal specimen I've been looking for. This is why I love going to rock shows, some of this stuff has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Photos are nice, videos are better, but opals need to be seen to be believed. Those colors are unreal bright.

[natureselements]

✨Oct 1st is my birthday, enjoy a little sale from now until oct 2nd, 20% off all goodies✨ visit my shop here 🖤

[overthemoonminerals]

Fluorite from the Naughty Gnome Pocket of the Diana Maria Mine in Weardale, England

This fluorite is daylight fluorescent, meaning it changes color in sunlight! It is a lovely emerald green in indoor lighting and parts of it turn blue in the sun ☀️

[sylverra]

Shop Update! 💜💚

Here's what's new this week:

Clear quartz ghosts

Fossil coral hearts

1" Hematite pyramid

Soapstone pentacle mortar & pestle

3" Rainbow moonstone point

Copper tear drop pendulum

Prehnite with rutile clusters

> See all our newest additions here <

Happy shopping!

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[srlgemstone]

Moss & Banded Agate

[oldearthminerals]

Bicolor Green Tourmaline Crystals, Shigar Valley, Pakistan.