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Phantom Crystal?! The name sounds very eerie, doesn't it?. In fact, some may even call it: ghost crystal or shadow crystal. But actually, it is only a common quartz crystal that have continued to grow and by chance engulfed "Phantom(s)" - other grown crystal(s) in its vicinity that may be growing sl...

It is true that agates in blues, teals, green, pink, purple are mostly dyed. But they do exist naturally also. For more info, please visit: http://www.gem.org.au/galleryf.htm

A tumbled crystal (or stone) is a crystal (or stone) that has been polished by usually a rotary tumbling process – a process which imitated the action of a natural flowing river.  It is a mass polishing method in which enough crystals are put in a barrel together with enough water, grit and pol...

First of all, we have to understand that the color of an object (like a crystal in our case) that we see is the scattering and/or transmitting of light of varying wavelength = electromagnetic energy = vibrational energy. Our body is able to absorb these energy through the chakras. A chakra is a vort...

What YOU think is what YOU get.

It is very interesting and fun to know how the physical and optical properties and/or physical appearance of a stone have been creatively related to its believed metaphysical power.

Dyeing is done on gems that are porous, have natural fractures or induced fractures (quench crackling). The detection of dyed porous gems: usually is by looking for the accumulations of dye on surface defect such as a fracture. The detection of dyed naturally fractured gems: Colored oil in emerald a...

Thank you for the great information crystalhealer1.

Yes, crystals are formed according to the their most favorable conditions (the right amount of heat and pressure in the "stomach" of our mother earth), with the most stable bondings like following a certain blueprint. The best example is a Diamond crystal. A Diamond crystal has to be formed approxim...

Synthetics are man-made gems often in the trade labeled as "man-made gemstone", "synthetic gemstone", "laboratory-grown gemstone", "created gemstone", "cultured gemstone" or, "reconstituted gemstone". Synthetics can be exact copies of natural gems ie. synthetic ruby and synthetic emerald, which have...

Gem has a point. But there are many other beliefs. Some believe natural crystals are natural energy resonators because of their simplicity and orderliness. Some believe that  the energy of the natural crystals came from the ever changing (heat and pressure) earth plate tectonic, giving each cry...

Please enlighten me on the other 3 chakras that I have been missing. Thank you.

There are seven major/main chakras that are located along the spinal column to the head of our physical body and many more minor/secondary chakras which are located in the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and at major joints in the arms and legs. A chakra is a vortice of energy where unive...

First Chakra which is also known as Root, Base, Muladhara, Kundalini (Sanskrit), is situated at the base of spine and the pubic bone (but encompasses genitals and reproductive organs). It has associated color of red, thus its corresponding crystals are red garnet, ruby, red jasper, carnelian, rhodoc...

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