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Rainbow Garnets

First discovered in 2004 these rare garnets are andradite garnet with an visual look thats pretty rare amongst the garnet family of minerals.

From near Osaka in Japan, although others have been found from Mexico although they appear slightly different coloured more base colour green than brown.

The lightly polished faces have an iridescent colour that can change when rotated, stunning.

lovely rainbow garnets from Japan
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There be gold

I’m sure Im not alone with the urge to do a little prospecting now and then, I was lucky enough to have a go recently in Scotland, put to shame by my 7 yr old son who battled the wind, rain and water better than I did, unfortunately we didn’t find anything like this lovely gold nugget on quartz from South Africa, but perhaps next time…

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Long Blue Kyanite

Take a look at the longest blue kyanite piece we’ve had to date, not only long big a gorgeous deep bright blue colour as well, from Pakistan. Predominately kyanite is found from Brazil and India, as with other minerals the locality is often apparent from the colour and size variation of the piece.

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Worth A Look – Gem Sugilite

If you’ve never seen the high grade gem sugilite, here’s your chance. I did a quick search to look for more examples but struggled to find kmany, what I did find was worrying – a lot of fake sugilite, both in polished and rough form, so beware when purchasing. Here’s our lovely piece.

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Give us a Review

We often get complimentary emails from customers but until now didn’t have the facility to accept or list them on the website.

So if you’d like to add a review and help potential future customers know that we care about our stones, have a good range, source them responsibly and have a speedy dispatch, please visit https://earthlygems.com/earthlygems-reviews it does ask for your email address – so we can reply or address any concerns.

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Macedonia Ruby

gorgeous pinky red unique colour ruby from this locality

Ok rubies are red, but this ruby from Macedonia has a gorgeous pink tone to it, very special!

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We recently had an issue with payments via SagePay with an error ‘invalid IP address’ luckily we always offer PayPal as an alternative but if you experienced this problem we do apologise and have created a discount coupon for you, 10% off until the end of the weekend use coupon code gremlin

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Which Blue is Lapis Blue

Say lapis lazuli and you wouldn’t be alone thinking of a royal blue colour perhaps with golden flecks, you don’t really recall the patches of white calcite but they’re there, most prized are the uniform rich blue colours with minimal calcite and pyrite.

Most of the Lazpis Lazuli available today is from Afghanistan, there’s a series of mines, mostly known by number ie. mine 1, mine 2, mine3

This lighter blue is known as ‘madina lapis’ lapis palmstones

Although fairly rare you do find lapis lazuli crystals

lapis lazuli crystal on calcite
nice grade natural lapis lazuli

However the range of colours from these mines can vary, (along with the price).

Often you see rough stone for sale that’s wet to give an indication of how the colour will appear with a polish, however if you’re choosing lapis the local miners blow on the stone to see how the moisture in their breath appears on the stone(inside tip!)

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Lovely Purple Colour but not what you think!

This is a rarer form of axinite which is rich in manganese from Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania. The nearby location of the more infamous trademark named mostly treated stone. This axinite has been nicknamed by the industry as ‘tinzanite’

We’ve only one piece but thought it was worth showing you this interesting variety.

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Latest Tourmalines

Tourmaline is pretty amazing, all colours of the rainbow, many names, a common triangular like formation, but say ‘tourmaline’ and most think of black sticks!

A lot of tourmaline has hidden colours, zoning and and bi colour areas, previously we showed a few from Staknala but these Himalayan crystals have some hidden blue green zoned colours.

can you see the colour change from black to green to blue