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Peridot

The honest guide to peridot: the yellow-green gem variety of olivine, its mantle and meteorite origins,...

Garnet

Garnet is a whole family of minerals in nearly every color, not just red. Here is the real mineralogy,...

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a soft pink manganese carbonate famous for banded Inca Rose slices and rare red crystals....

Rhodonite

Rhodonite is a pink manganese silicate with black veins. The real mineralogy, its Russian imperial history,...

Jade

The honest guide to jade: jadeite versus nephrite, treated and dyed pieces, the serpentine fakes, real...

Moldavite

Moldavite is a 15-million-year-old impact glass from a meteorite strike. Here is the real science, the...

Lepidolite

Lepidolite is a soft lilac lithium mica. Here is the real mineralogy, the honest truth about the lithium...

Clear Quartz

What clear quartz actually is, why it's the most common crystal around, and how to tell real quartz from...

Smoky Quartz

Why smoky quartz gets its brown color, the Scottish history behind it, and how to spot lab-darkened...

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