crystals for sale - what's new

    

New Arrivals:

This page tells you a little about our most recent purchases, highlighting some of the more unusual specimens and providing some more pictures.

We have an excellent supplier of crystals, fossils and minerals from Madagascar, and we have just been for another visit  and ended up bringing back lots more lovely items. We have some beautiful crystals and also can source some unusual formations for you if you want something special and if we don't have what you want in stock. We can get all sizes and price ranges - last autumn we indulged ourselves with a massive smoky quartz crystal included with mica plates and chlorite phantoms, weighing in at a massive 75 kilos, and another clear polished piece with mica, lepidocrocite and epidot crystal inclusions weighing in at 54 kilos. Not crystals that will get moved very far - in fact Mark has had to make special trolleys for them to sit on! (See left and right hand pictures at the top of the page.) Currently these two are working with us and are not for sale, but this may change if the right person comes along!

This visit we have come home with an amazing deep smoky quartz partly polished terminated crystal, full of rutile and sagenite - some as "tunnels" through the crystal - which weighs nearly 20kg and measures 17" tall by 9" diameter. This one is for sale and is a fantastic piece with loads of very interesting potential for the right Keeper! It is shown in the central picture above - click here for more pictures and the price.

INCLUDED QUARTZ:

Madagascar offers some unusual forms and formations of quartz, including polished and natural elestials and skeletal quartz and a wide range of unusual pieces with different inclusions, such as black rutile, garnets, epidot and enhydros (water bubbles). They also have plenty of epidot in quartz, many of which are as good as the Columbian "dream quartz" mentioned in "The Book of Stones" by Robert Simmons. Several other specimens we have for sale, polished and part-polished, are unusual combinations of minerals in the same piece, such as a smoky / clear / amethyst / enhydro mix or a smoky / epidot / rutile mix. Some are displayed below.

BLACK TOURMALINE:

We also have some very good quality crystals of black tourmaline, including some unusual polished spheres, and have found that small spheres as pairs held one in each hand are really effective clearers and balancers. The black tourmaline from Madagascar grows in very tightly packed crystals, which means it can be very cleanly polished. Looser material, such as that often found in the UK or Brazil, tends to split and crumble when polished, and does not have the same deep quality. A small pair (we call them Mark's black balls!!) costs £9.

PETRIFIED WOOD:

Madagascar is also a very good source for Petrified Wood and the slices we bought last year sold so fast we just had to get some more! There are some fabulous colours within the material which have some eye-catching "pictures", often displaying what look like guides or totem creatures within. We also bought several lovely spheres - one with pink and purple shades and others with clear markings and some amazing quartz druse in. Some slices and spheres are pictured below.

     

GRAPHIC FELDSPAR:

We love this new material, pictured below in freeform and a sphere. It is a new find of material, being a yellow / beige jasper or feldspar that contains random deposits of smoky quartz. To us it has both the look and feel of "big cats" and of the African savannah. Several pieces look like leopards or tigers, hiding well camouflaged in yellowing grass! Much has sold already, but we hope to be getting some more soon.

CELESTITE CLUSTERS:

Madagascar is the best source of top-grade celestite, and we have some lovely small to hand-sized specimens of Celestite, with some wonderfully clear crystals and unusual terminations. We can also get larger clusters (see 7kg cluster below), which are suitable for a healing / therapy room or larger space. Prices depend on quality and weight, and range from £5 to £150 per piece.

SPHERES IN ASSORTED MINERALS:

We also have bought some more lovely spheres in carnelian, rutilated quartz, picture jasper, ocean jasper, smoky quartz, asterated rose quartz and clear quartz. These range from 2" in diameter to 6" in diameter and prices range from £30 to £250, dependant on size and nature and grade of material.

LABRADORITE:

Madagascar's labradorite is also of a high quality, and we have brought back several spheres in both blue and gold colour plays, which we are selling alongside some Brazilian free-form shapes and domes, pictured grouped below. Labradorite is one of the crystals brought to us by Lady Faith (feminine counterpart of Archangel Michael). She held out a piece of labradorite to me and said enigmatically: "Michael does it with his sword (protects, defends and fights) I do it with smoke and mirrors. The nature of magic questions the nature of reality - after all, what IS real and what is illusion?" The Book of Stones tells us that labradorite is a stone of magic and protection. It is an interdimensional stone helping to pierce the veils between times and dimensions and bringing awareness of the multiple layers of reality. The stone appears dark, yet holds a rainbow of colours only visible in direct light. This mirrors the stone's energy which allows passage through unseen realms, whilst remaining purified in the Light. It helps one see that apparent polarities are in fact continuums of what is simply energy, which merely expresses itself in extremes. All things are connected and Unity underlies all apparent paradoxes.

CANDLE (CELESTIAL) QUARTZ:

Madagascar is the best source for white candle quartz (also called Celestial quartz in The Book of Stones) and I have some really good specimens in a range of sizes and forms ranging from small single cut-base ones at £5 each to a couple of enormous specimens and clusters weighing up to 9 kilos (largest cluster pictured on the right below) and costing up to £350. I have been a great fan of these candle quartz for ages, and up until now have only found small cut-base singletons or small clusters. These new ones have come from a one-off find of "biggies" in a new deposit only recently discovered. There are some really amazing formations never seen before, including "love-stars", fantastic bridges, growth interference, double terminated and self-healed specimens and many also exhibit trigonal qualities, which when combined with the properties of Celestial quartz makes for  eye-opening pieces (see "quartz - trigonal" in Book of Stones). You can see just how amazing the size of these giants are - compare this single point (about 4kg) pictured on the left below to my hand! On our diploma course we teach students how to place a grid of 12 small cut-base candle quartz in a widely spaced oval around the treatment couch, which intensely enhances their sensitivity .......... just think what meditating or sitting with one of these larger ones could do!

OTHER ITEMS:

We also have from Africa some lower grade (and cheaper) quartz with Ajoite and smaller pieces of quartz with Hollandite - also known as Black Star quartz. Also we have just managed to acquire some Macedonian Green Opal - one of the stones we use in our crystal grid for Raphael's Lady, as well as a quantity of Owyhee blue opal, which we use for Raphael, Uriel and Michael's Ladies too! Also we have a newly found combination of prehnite with epidot inclusions, which is very fine; some fantastic quality gemmy green chrysoprase; some beautiful translucent deep pink opal from Peru and some really good quality black tourmaline in quartz from Brazil. New on the scene for 2007 I have some green opal from Bulgaria, which feels like a cross between Macedonian green opal and good quality chrysoprase; some natural rainbow quartz; some beautiful chrysanthemum stones with inclusions like angel wings; some Ajo calcite pieces and some smoky quartz crystals with hessonite garnets encrusted on them. (It's interesting to see so much good quality opal coming onto the scene lately from several new finds and sources. Some Ethiopian opal I managed to acquire sold out in two days, and all opal seems to be very popular with healers. I think it is because we are moving through a period of intense emotional turmoil, which is bringing the potential to us for huge amounts of self-healing!)

Also we have some of the more rare stones mentioned in Robert Simmons / Naisha Ahsian's "The Book of Stones" (a really excellent resource book, and one of the most insightful authors I have come across), including Scolecite, Stilbite, Iolite-sunstone (natural starstone) Astrophyllite, Cavansite, Eudialyte, Covellite, Nuumite, Healers Gold, Purpurite and Satyaloka quartz points. Look at our "Price List of all Crystals for Sale" page for a full list of everything we stock or can supply.

Finally, we hear that Boji stones are getting very hard to find these days, as fewer of them are there to be harvested. We have several pairs of good definition male and female traditional "brown" Bojis in a variety of sizes and prices. They start at £18 for a pair of about 1/2" diameter, and go to £80 for a massive pair of 2" diameter - I defy anyone not to come back down to Earth after holding these for a while! See the picture below.