Natural Radiation and Gemstone Color
Natural radiation can create beautiful colors in many gems. Learn how natural radiation works and what gems are most commonly affected by it.
Natural radiation can create beautiful colors in many gems. Learn how natural radiation works and what gems are most commonly affected by it.
From Afghanistan to the Zuni Pueblo, people the world over have revered turquoise as a good luck stone for centuries. Blue as the summer sky or a robin’s…
Blue gemstones captivate us with their connection to sea and sky, representing one of nature’s rarest colors. Today’s gem market…
We have malachite, azurite, and chrysocolla. We also offer silver ore and other one off or unique specimens.
Shell pendants with lapis lazuli, others with malachite, some with glass. Photo by kafka4prez. Licensed under CC By-SA 2.0.
Azurites and malachites on a limonite crust, 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province, Laos. © Rob Lavinsky, www.iRocks.com.…
A jewelry box carved from azurite with patterns of malachite and cuprite, 7.62 x 5.38 x 2.54 cm. Photo courtesy of liveauctioneers.com and Heritage…
Deep blue azurite cabochon with green malachite “eyes,” 150 cts, 54.4 x 38.2 x 8.7 mm, Bisbee, Arizona. © 49erMinerals. Used with permission.…
Azurite with malachite: Bisbee, Arizona (~ 4 inches high). Photo © Joel E. Arem, PhD, FGA. Used with permission.