Mango Quartz was first discovered by Don Victor Carranza in Columbia during the early 80s. However, he was involved in several unsavoury business ventures and was a very territorial and paranoid man. After he made the discovery, he sealed the mine entrance so no one else would know where to find ‘his’ beautiful Quartz. It
Hello and welcome to the first of my new set of blogs for 2021. If you’d like to check back on the new Crystal Energy blogs for 2021 at any point, please scroll to the bottom of the page where the blog categories are shown. I wrote back in 2014 about how the energies of
I’ve recently been drawn to a mineral that has been around for quite a few years now and is named Lemurian Aquatine Calcite. This is a trademarked, marketing name created by Robert Simmons. A bigwig in the crystal world who has a habit of taking perfectly normal minerals, in this case, a blue, chalcedony based
This week sees the introduction of a stone that has been used by indigenous tribes in Africa for eons, but is only now coming to the fore in Western society. It is called Tsesit Stone (pronounced Te-sit) and found near the village of Tses in Namibia, Africa. The San (indigenous & first peoples of South
Pyroxmangite is an incredibly rare, high-temperature polymorph of Rhodonite. In plain English, this means it is the highest quality,  most intense energy/vibration version of Rhodonite with an extremely high concentration of Manganese. There are none of the grey or black lines that are normally associated with Rhodonite. Manganese is mined primarily for the medical industry as
Black Moonstone is the rarest form of Moonstone that really packs a punch for me. Moonstone, who’s geological name is Hecatolite, consists of two different feldspars (Albite & Orthoclase). As Moonstone is created and cools, these two feldspars mix in various ways and always in layers. When light touches the areas between these layers, it
Trolleite is an amazing mineral that was first discovered in Sweden in the early 1900s. It is a hard, Phosphate mineral that contains Quartz, Lazulite and Scorzalite. For many years, it was only located in Sweden, but recent finds in the USA, Africa and South American have allowed pieces to come to the fore that
Hello and welcome to my latest blog on an old, but not very widely known or used mineral called Tremolite. This blog is a personal celebration for me as it took two decades to get used to the energy of Tremolite and discover why I absolutely hated it!! It used to make my skin crawl
There is a new blend of minerals on the block and WOW, is it heart opening, soothing and uplifting. There has been a find of high grade Lepidolite & Pink Tourmaline in Quartz from Madagascar. Both of these minerals are on my ‘go to’, must have list of crystalline energies to work with. I have worked
Dumortierite is an amazing mineral to work with. The majority of Dumortierite is blue, often a dark blue/black colour. However, when there are inclusions of iron or aluminium variants (which is rare), this colour can change to brown, green, pink or pale purple. Dumortierite was first discovered in France in 1881 by paleontologist Eugene Dumortier,
Paraiba Kyanite is a new form of Kyanite mined specifically in Tanzania. It is very difficult to mine stones in many of the African countries due to civil unrest, so although I’ve known about this new, beautiful blend of Kyanite for some time now, we’ve only now been able to obtain enough to release it
Angel Phantom Quartz, or Amphibole as it is technically known, is an amazing little quartz that is highly underrated and one of the rarest in the Quartz family. Amphibole is the name given to a group of minerals such as Tremolite, Tourmaline & Actinolite to name just a few. Angel Phantom Quartz is a quartz
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