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BE. Stone Buying Checklist
How to read a crystal bracelet before you buy it: ten checks, in order, with the reasoning behind each. A4 PDF included.
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Field notes for understanding materials, comparing stones, choosing size, and caring for what you wear.
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Smoky Quartz vs Clear Quartz: Choosing a 10 mm Bracelet
Choose between BE.’s 10 mm smoky quartz and clear quartz strands. Compare grey-brown and colourless beads, construction and finished lengths.
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Black Onyx or Tiger’s Eye? Choosing a 4 mm Bead Necklace
Black onyx or tiger’s eye? Compare BE.’s 4 mm, 43 cm bead necklaces by colour, changing light and construction, and choose the look you prefer.
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Tiger's Eye vs Hawk's Eye vs Bull's Eye
Compare golden tiger's eye, blue hawk's eye and red tiger's eye through colour, the moving light band and documented treatments.
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Tiger's Eye vs Tiger Iron: Moving Light and Rock Layers
Tiger's eye is chatoyant quartz; tiger iron is a banded rock. Explore moving light, fixed layers, geological stages and care for polished jewellery.
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Dumortierite Quartz vs Rutilated Quartz: Blue and Gold Needles
Compare dumortierite quartz and rutilated quartz: their minerals, blue and gold needles, formation, patterns, care and appearance in jewellery.
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Kyanite vs Aquamarine vs Blue Needle Quartz: Three Blue Strands
Kyanite vs aquamarine vs blue needle quartz bracelets: where the blue sits, kyanite's two hardness values, how each wears, which to pick.
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Amethyst vs Clear Quartz: Is Amethyst Just Purple Quartz?
Amethyst is quartz with an iron colour centre; clear quartz is the same mineral without one. What that changes: fading, veils, 6 to 10 mm tone, treatments.
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Real vs Fake Kyanite: Dyed Howlite, Glass and Safe Checks
How to tell if kyanite is real: dyed howlite, blue glass and dumortierite quartz show on the bead. Why scratch tests fail and what a lab measures.
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Is Fire Quartz Natural? Real vs Fake Hematoid Quartz Explained
Fire quartz is a trade name that overlaps with hematoid quartz: natural quartz coloured by iron oxides. Where the red sits in a bead separates untreated, heated and...
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Yellow Crystal Bracelets: Citrine, Rutilated or Obsidian?
Citrine, golden rutilated quartz and gold sheen obsidian read as gold for three different reasons. Hardness, light, wear and what to ask before buying.
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Real vs Fake Rutilated Quartz: Coatings, Glass and Safe Checks
Real vs fake rutilated quartz: natural rutile needles sit inside the quartz. How glass wires, coatings and composites show, and which checks are safe.
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Prehnite vs Jade vs Peridot: Three Pale Greens Told Apart
Prehnite, jade and peridot share a pale green. A loupe gives clues: cloudy glow, compact grain or doubled edges. Toughness, treatments, safe screening.
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