Lapidary Rough
Lapidary Rough
Ametrine
Apatite
-- Apatite Lapidary Rough
Arabian Blue Silica
-- Arabian Blue Silica Arabian Blue silica is a chalcedony colored by float copper (aka gem silica). This is a very rare chalcedony. Most gem silica gets its color from Chrysocolla. This material derives . . .
Agate
Blue Chalcedony
-- Blue Chalcedony
Kyanite
-- Kyanite Lapidary Rough
Opal
-- Opal is a mineraloid gel which is deposited at a relatively low temperature and may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock, being most commonly found with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, and basalt.
The . . .
Carnelian
-- Carnelian Rough
Chrysocolla
-- Chrysocolla (hydrated copper silicate) is a mineral, (Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2O. It is of secondary origin and forms in the oxidation zones of copper ore bodies. Associated minerals are quartz, limonite, . . .
Chrysoprase
-- Chrysoprase or chrysophrase is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel. Its color is normally apple-green, but varies to deep green. . . .
Jasper
Honeycomb Calcite
-- Honeycomb Calcite Lapidary Rough
Iolite
-- Cordierite (mineralogy) or iolite (gemology) is a magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate. Iron is almost always present and a solid solution exists between Mg-rich cordierite and Fe-rich sekaninaite with . . .
Lapis
-- Lapis lazuli (SimplePronounciation | lap-iz-la-zoo-lee) (sometimes abbreviated to lapis) is a semi-precious stone prized since antiquity for its intense blue color.Lapis lazuli is a rock, not a mineral: . . .
Lepidolite
-- Lepidolite Rough
Maasai Sunstone
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Maasai Sunstone This a a rare sunstone that comes from Tanzania. It is very hard to get. Very small quantities of this material has been mined. Most material is very small and heavily fractured. . . .
Moonstone
-- Moonstone rough This material is blue sheen moonstone from Tanzania. The price of this material has been going through the roof the past couple of years. It is hard to get good cutting grade material. . . .
Rhodochrosite
-- Rhodochrosite Rough Druzy rhodochrosite is very rare material from the mines in Argentina.
Rhodonite
Rhyolite
-- Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, of felsic (silicon-rich) composition (typically >69% SiO2 — see the TAS classification). It may have any texture from aphanitic to porphyritic. The . . .
Quartz
Sugilite
-- Sugilite (also known as luvulite) is a relatively rare pink to purple cyclosilicate mineral with the complex chemical formula: KNa2(Fe,Mn,Al)2Li3Si12O30. Sugilite crystallizes in the hexagonal system with . . .
Sunstone
-- Sunstone Lapidary Rough
Turquoise
-- Turquoise Lapidary Rough
Topaz
-- Topaz
