Stone, structure, and the way a piece is chosen.
Field notes for understanding BE. materials, comparing stones, choosing size, and caring for what you wear.
A material-first reframe of crystals as geological treasures — what makes them rare, how they form, and why the geology is more interesting than the mythology.
How crystal colours form — trace element substitution, electron transitions, structural colour, treatment effects, and what gives each mineral its hue.
A geology-first walk through the four ways crystals form — igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary and hydrothermal — and what each path tells you about a stone.