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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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Super Seven Crystal Guide: Identity, Inclusions & How to Read It
A geology-first guide to Super Seven as a quartz trade name, separating host, colour zones, visible inclusions and laboratory confirmation.
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Green Rutilated Quartz Guide: Actinolite, Rutile & the Evidence Boundary
A science-first guide to green rutilated quartz: why the trade name does not prove rutile, how actinolite/chlorite/phantom confusions differ, and what evidence a seller should show.
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Amethyst Varieties: Trade Names, Origins and What They Mean
A geology-first guide to amethyst varieties, locality labels, growth patterns and trade names, with clear evidence limits for origin, treatment and rarity.
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Black Obsidian: Volcanic Glass, Identification & Quality
A material-first guide to black obsidian: how volcanic glass forms, what creates its dark appearance, how to screen lookalikes and where observation must stop.
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How to Spot High-Quality Moonstone
Compare moonstone by moving sheen, viewing angle, bodycolour, cut, polish and bead condition—without treating appearance as identification.
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Why Uvarovite Usually Appears as Small Green Crystals—and What the Faceted Exception Changes
Uvarovite usually forms as small green crystals along mineralised surfaces, yet rare larger and faceted mixed-composition examples keep “never cut” from being accurate.
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Almandine Garnet: Formation, Identification & Care
Almandine is the common Fe–Al garnet. Learn how it forms, how testing separates mixed red garnets, what to look for in jewellery, and how to care for it.
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Andradite Fire: Why High Dispersion Does Not Guarantee Visible Fire
Andradite has high optical dispersion, but the visible fire of an individual stone still depends on transparency, colour, cut, polish, lighting and viewing geometry.
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Green Grossular or Tsavorite? What Colour Cannot Prove
Tsavorite is a green variety name within grossular, but colour alone cannot establish the species, the naming threshold, origin, treatment or colouring elements.
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Spessartine Garnet: What Orange Tells You, and What “Mandarin” Does Not
Spessartine is defined by composition, while orange colour and the trade label “Mandarin” remain observations and market language rather than proof of species, origin or treatment.
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Pyrope Garnet: When a Red Stone Becomes a Geological Clue
Pyrope is a magnesium–aluminium garnet whose composition and field context can support geological exploration, but neither red colour nor an isolated grain proves identity, origin or diamonds.
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Does Moonlight Do Anything to Crystals?
Moonlight is weak reflected sunlight. Outdoor exposure can add dew, cooling and dirt—not a verified crystal-specific charge.
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