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While goldstone is man made, it does have natural copper in it, so it has some of the properties of copper. It won't be as strong as copper however.

I have an internet store that sells crystals and minerals. We have a very wide variety in lots of price ranges. Each is individually photographed from multiple angles. I can't post the link directly, but the name of my store is below and the link is in my profile. Here's some other suggestions, I ha...

Phantom crystals are created during a slow or no growth phase of a crystal. Sediment, chlorite or other minerals settle on the surface and the crystal continues to grow, showing a record of where the crystal has been. Often the phantoms are elusive, you really have to search to find them, but someti...

Essential there is no difference between gemstones and crystals. Gemstones are created from crystals, and are usually faceted and made into jewelry. Crystals are usually found in their natural formation. I have to disagree with Aegeus however, gemstones are usually the higher grade crystals with gre...

I was going to chime in with moonstone too.

Good luck.

That is a beautiful piece of lepidolite. The chunck should take to tumbling easily, however the quartz may need to be removed first for a tumbling machine since it is much harder than the lepidolite. (I really don't know much about tumbling stones)  Of course hand polishing is an option. But it...

Some are obvious, others are not. If you have agates that are in blues, teals, green, pink, purple, they are obviously dyed. Howlite is often dyed too, yellow, pink, blue, green etc. and is often passed as turquoise. Crackled quartz is also dyed. Others are done so subtly that you need high magnific...

Some books to get you started: Healing with Chakra Energies by Sue and Simon Lilly Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals by Cassandra Eason There is a whole series of books by Katrina Raphael too, but I would start with the two above. There are many ways of doing a body layout session, depending...

Sharing crystals is always a personal choice. My partner and I share crystals all the time. However we do have some that are personally "ours" that we do not share with eachother. We often sleep with stones, one will start the night with it, and the other will wake up with it. My partner often picks...

To answer one of your original questions, amazonite will tolerate water. It is a feldspar related to moonstone, labradorite and sunstone. A few stones to absolutely keep away from water are: Celestite (may disolve the limestone matrix), opals, turquoise, angelite, anhydrite, aragonite, any of the ro...

When I first started with crystals I was extremely sensitive to the energies. My collection and inventory at home did not bother me, but the first time I went a dealer's warehouse I was completely overwhelmed! I had to keep going outside because my head was spinning, I was dizzy and slightly nauseat...

You don't have to buy jewelry quality gemstones to meditate with. Many precious and semi-precious stones are available in rough or specimen grades that are quite affordable. For example, you can find a good sized rough emerald (around an inch) for $15 or less, the energy for meditation and healing w...

Lepidolite is a purple mica, it is quite flakey and very soft. It is not an easy stone to polish, and I'm not sure how well it would do in a tumbler, althought I have seen tumbled lepidolite. Lepidolite is purple in color. It has a wonderful soft energy that is very soothing. From my site: Lepidolit...

Selenite & kyanite are indeed two of the few that don't need to be cleansed or charged. At the moment some of the others elude me, but there are not many.

but I can not help but to start to cry because I start to think of my father. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right and how to stop from crying. I'm sorry just another problem I can't figure out. smt059 The crying is normal as the rose quartz begins to clear the energy blockages in your heart chakra...