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   Welcome to the first Gemstone Interview for The Beginner's Guide to Getting Stone...Um, I mean Stones, brought to you by the Shinyite School of Stones. Today we'll be interviewing a very beautiful gemstone from the Windalia Radiolalite near Graystone Junction in western Australia--Mookaite, also known as Australian Jasper. Mookaite: Oh, please, just call me Mooka    Certainly. Does that name hold any special meaning for you? Mookaite: It does, it means Running Water in the local Aboriginal dialect.    Well that makes sense as you are only found exclusively in the Kennedy Ranges and the Mooka creek region. Is...

What is a natural stone that can have many variations in color, pattern, and veining? Probably one you take for Gran-ite! Get it? Granite?  K2 Granite Tumbled I crack myself up! 😂  I believe my bosses just did a group eye-roll! Well that's okay, Granite is worth rolling your eyes over!   K2 Granite with Azurite Ring  Because there are so many minerals that make up Granite, like quartz, amphiboles, feldspar, potassium and mica, the variations are endless! Granite can vary widely in color from the off white caused by quartz, dark green or black from amphibole, to the pink from...

Ohhh, shiny, but wait, that's not gold! Pyrite Small Sphere No, it's not. It's Pyrite, but don't let it "fool" you into thinking it is something less desirable or less worthy than gold, Pyrite is more than meets the eye!      To the untrained eye, Pyrite is often mistaken for gold (thus the reason it is often referred to as Fools Gold). It's shiny and pretty, and yes, it does resemble gold with its brassy, yellow appearance, but that is where the resemblance ends. Unlike gold, it is less malleable, has a different crystalline shape and a difference in...

Black Onyx Obelisk    What is Onyx? Onyx is the parallel banded variety of chalcedony - an oxide mineral. The colors of its bands range from black to nearly every color. But today I am going to talk about the uber cool black variety!      The gemstone is produced in water under low temperatures with vast silica deposits. Typically it is surrounded by many different rocks, fissures and cracks and can be found all over the globe in places like Greece, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Pakistan, India, the UK and the United States, to name just a few places.   ...