Leopardite: 8 Honest Facts About This Confusingly Named Stone
Leopardite is a spotted, manganese-stained igneous rock named for its resemblance to a leopard's coat, and it's also…
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Rainbow Obsidian: 8 Fascinating Facts About This Volcanic Glass
Rainbow obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass that displays iridescent bands of color, gold, green, blue, and…
Kambaba Jasper: 8 Honest Facts About Madagascar’s Debated Stone
Kambaba jasper is a dark green, orbicular volcanic stone from a single region of Madagascar, prized for the…
Is Bumblebee Jasper Toxic? The Honest Safety Answer
Bumblebee Jasper's answer is more nuanced than a flat yes or no, and getting it wrong matters more…
Spider Web Jasper: 7 Honest Facts About This Web-Patterned Stone
Spider web jasper is a dark-veined, opaque jasper prized for a genuinely rare trait among ornamental stones: no…
Red Jasper: 8 Fascinating Facts About This Ancient Stone
Red jasper is an opaque variety of chalcedony, microcrystalline quartz colored by iron oxide inclusions, primarily hematite, embedded…
Pink Opal: 8 Honest Facts About the Andean Stone
Pink opal is a variety of common opal, opal without the flashing "play-of-color" seen in precious opal, valued…
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Labradorite: 8 Fascinating Facts About the Feldspar That Flashes Color
Labradorite is a feldspar mineral best known for labradorescence, a flash of blue, green, gold, or multicolor light…
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Rhodolite Garnet: 8 Beautiful Facts About the Rose-Purple Garnet
Rhodolite is a rose-red to purplish-red garnet formed by a natural blend of two other garnet species, pyrope…
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Spessartine Garnet: 9 Fiery Facts About the Mandarin Garnet
Spessartine is the orange member of the garnet family, colored not by dye or heat but by manganese…
