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Enhydro Quartz
Back to ‘stone stuff’ a while ago from certain folk there was a huge demand for water trapped within quartz due to it’s alleged purity, occasionally we’d see a few but now after a little closer examination we have a batch available, here a couple of samples. Click on the pics to see larger images, we’ve but a red cross below the ‘bubble’. The bubbles on these two actually move when you turn the crystal side to side. Obviously water isn’t the only liquid that is captured inside quartz. Occasionally we have points with oil inside which fluoresces under UV light(if you’re looking to buy one of these from ‘a dealer’ note that if the label says petroleum the price maybe be higher than a comparable ‘oil’ one).
Well we had a call back as promised from a bemused Google person who had heard back from the
‘merchant product team’ and their decision stands, we can’t advertise a sharks tooth fossil because it’s from a ‘shark’ even though it’s a prehistoric relative of a shark extinct some 30+ million years ago.
Apparently it’s extinct but still endangered…
Disappointing from an educational perspective – a fossil being stone created after the original animal(part) has been replaced, the Oxford University of Natural History has an easily understandable description.
This does ask questions, who in Google merchant products team can link a fossil from an extinct animal to a modern day creature?
From an education perspective is that correct?
Does Google consider their customers to be intellectually challenged?
What shall we teach our children about fossils or indeed Google?
But in the end its disappointing that with Google being such a big monolith you can’t reach anyone with some practical sense who could make an informed decision.
I know we fall a little behind on the marketing front and informing you of our news, but we do hope our quality ‘crystals and gem’ products and prices speak for themselves.
However we thought it important especially for fossil fans to know that Google sent us a 7 day warning yesterday for selling fossil sharks teeth(Striatolamia Macrota) in particular this lovely English sharks tooth fossil.
Horrified that we had received such an email especially because it quoted ‘Endangered Species‘
Presuming a little mis-understanding was at fault or perhaps automated scripts I called Google(Ireland) I spoke to a helpful chap explaining that the fossil tooth was probably between 33-66 million years old and was extinct 30+ million years ago, after a slight pause I was asked to hold, then I was told the issue would be passed to the Google products team, so now I’m awaiting a response hoping our account won’t be suspended and that fossil fans of all types whether collectors, interior designers, school children or history fans will still be able to explore natures wonders…
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Latest Natural Sapphires
Currently a favourite of mine, I think the shape and formation of sapphire crystals are very intriguing.
This particular blue sapphire has an unusual twin termination on it’s tip.
Another favourite is this purple colour sapphire chunk again from Sri Lanka
Lovely colours from these iridescent ammolite rings made with sterling silver, it’s all about the stones and look at these!
This one uniquely made with leather and with an open adjustable band.
Ammolite is actually a type of fossil and these wonderful colours range through reds, greens, blues, purples, absolutely stunning and quite rare.
When you’ve been selling online for a few years(since 2000) sometimes
what seemed a good idea then may not be quite so good today…
We used to list our tumblestones
under ‘common’ and ‘harder to find’ and while that could still be the
case our ‘hard to find’ may not apply to customers in the country of
origin etc.
So we’ve now listed them alphabetically and by type so all the agate tumblestones are together under agate eg holly blue agate, tree agate & turitella agate, …all the types and size of amethyst tumblestones are under amethyst, We then have a section for other ‘A’ tumblestones.
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Canadian Ammolites
This gorgeous material is from the fossil shells of the ammonite families of 
Placenticeras meeki and Placenticeras intercalare. This organic gemstone is predominately comprised of Aragonite which has been preserved naturally. Under different conditions the aragonite would have changed to calcite. Only really commercially mined since 1979. Its an amazingly vibrant material which is still relatively new to the market.
Most valued pieces are those with vibrant colours, fragmented or skin like appearances are common. However we’re finding that they all look great!
We currently have silver ammolite jewellery and ammolite pieces, rough fragments and chunks are on their way!
Recently we found an interesting quartz formation very much like a japan law twin where a crystal termination sits at a right angle to another:-
Not having seen one for sometime it was quite a find!
Another favourite which could easily be justified as a take home purchase would be this gorgeous natural blue and purple sapphire chunk from Sri Lanka
Have you worked with one of these milky translucent quartz points, very interesting from the Himalayan regions.
Now let me go and make some room on my collection shelf!
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Oh dear….and what’s new…
‘oh dear’ a phrase my little boy(16 months old) happens to repeat came to mind recently when I had a message from Fedex, can you call us about a shipment, funnily enough i was wondering why this particular shipment was taking longer than normal so i called…
I can’t seem to see any problem….Oh hold on a moment I’ll put you through to someone…
The impression I got was someone reading an update as they were talking and it went something like…unfortunately one of our trucks carrying your shipment and others was involved in an accident causing considerable damage to the rear of the vehicle however not all the cartons were damaged in the collision (at this point I thought ‘oh dear’)..the conversion continued.then there was a fire…then I said oh dear several times…
At least no-one was hurt, I know this because I asked, I mention this because according to the Fedex rep. I was the only one to ask…oh dear again.
Yes we did have a delivery, luckily everything was fine, however there was a ‘burnt singed’ fragrance on the packaging.(don’t worry it didn’t contain any crystals!)
More soon…
Here’s some highlights from the new products added this week, fluorite pendant, a solid natural copper sphere, bright peridot gemstone silver ring.