Stone Skulls
New cut and polished stone skulls. We now have stone skulls in some new materials. Along with the Fluorite skulls we have carried before, we now have skulls in Agate, Amethyst, Jet, Nuumite, Obsidian, Quartz, Jade and Smokey Quartz in different sizes. They are priced between $6 to $60 depending on material, size and quality.
Stone Angels
We have just recieved some carved and polished angels made of various different materials. They range in size from 1.5 inches to 3.25 inches tall by 1 inch to 2 inches wide. We have them in Tigereye, Rose Quartz, Seraphinite (Clinochlore), Quartz, Orange Agate, Lapis, Manganocalcite and Nephrite Jade. We only have certain sizes of each material and some in only one size.
They range in price from $8 to $20 your cost.
New Smooth Stones
We just got in some very nice polished smooth stones. The first is gemmy Chrysoprase with very nice color. Priced at $2 to $6 your cost, depending on quality and size.
The second are interesting Prehnite with what appears to be Actinolite inclusions. Priced at $3 your cost.
The third we have had before but this new batch of Pietersite has better color and patterns than before. Priced at $4 your cost.
August 2011 Brazil shipment, polished
Amethyst Flat Bottom, Bolivia
Calcite polished with inclusions
Mini Coco polished backside
Mini Coco slices
Quartz pyramids
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis dealers in the Namak Mandi (salt bazar) in Peshawar
Lapis or more correctly Lapis Lazuli is a rock type, containing primarily Lazurite, Calcite and Pyrite
Lapis Lazuli has been found in other places, but most of today’s production comes from the mines at Sar e Sang. Almost all of the production is smuggled across the border into Pakistan and end up in the Peshawar Namak Mandi (Salt Bazaar) and though some of it gets shortstopped by local lapidaries, most of it is exported as rough to China. The local lapidaries get first crack at the rough and they are the ones we deal with to get the lapidary items that we sell. This locality has been producing Lapis Lazuli for more than 100 years. The Lazurite is the mineral that makes the stone the rich blue color that makes this material popular. Some have little flecks or veins of white in them and this is the calcite. Some also have little sparkles of gold colored pyrite in it as well. In some past times, real Lapis was so rare and hard to get that synthetic lapis was simulated by blue glass and little flecks of gold were added to simulate the pyrite inclusions.
Lapis Spheres
4cm to 6cm diameter $16 to $100 dependin on quality and size.
Lapis Eggs
4cm to 5cm long and 3cm to 3.5cm wide: $16 to $30 net depending on quality and size
Lapis Pyramids
2.5cm to 3.5cm base: $4 to $12 each net depending on size and quality
Lapis Smoothe Stones:
4cm to 6cm $4 to $12net depending on size and quality.
Lapis Smothe Stones
8oz/half pound bags: Average 8pcs per bag.
$40 net per bag
Lapis Donuts:
25mm to 45mm $5 to $12 each net.
Lapis Freeforms polished:
These are not really tumbled polished, but are little free forms that are hand polished one by one by local craftsmen.
Lapis Freeform Polished:
These are not really tumbled polished, but are little free forms that are hand polished one by one by local craftsmen.
Half pound bags:
Extra Quality: $50 for a half pound bag
Regular Quality: $30 for a half pound bag
Giant Lapis Freeform polished:
$120 to $370 net: depending on size and quality.
Lapis slabs:
About 4 to 5mm thick.
5cm to 9cm $7 to $15 each net.
Lapis eights:
Aqua Aura Quartz
Aqua Aura Quartz are natural quartz crystals that have had a coating of tin with a little bit of gold vapor deposited on their surface to make them a pretty blue aquamarine color. The coating is quite resistant to wear and we have never had a single complaint about the coating wearing off. The process is time intensive and costs us more than the cost of the quartz crystals that we send to be coated. The process is also rather heat intensive and many of the quartz clusters we send for treatment crack apart during the coating process from the thermal stress they are subjected to and we always get some bits and pieces back from the clusters that have fallen apart. We have also found out from long experience that we need to use quartz crystals of high quality. They need to be bright and shiny to start with and have good transparency. If we don't use this kind of quartz, the breakage during treatment goes up and the results are less satisfactory if we use inferior quality quartz. Often times we have trouble keeping enough in stock to satisfy customers and part of this is that it is sometimes difficult to get the kind and quality of quartz that we need for the process.
We sell Aqua Aura:
Quarz Points
Quartz Clusters
Cactus Quartz Points
Fairy Quartz Points
Donuts
Tumbled Quartz Stones
Fluorite Bowls
Green and Purple banded fluorite bowls. Many of these are quite striking and we sell a lot of them. We get in shipments of these periodically and our most recent shipment included some of the largest and finest fluorite bowls we have ever had. Some of these are festooned with flower carvings on their rims, all from the same piece of fluorite. In the 19th century in England, the base metal mines of Cornwall produced large quantities of massive fluorite and though it had no value to the mining companies for lead or zinc values, local craftsmen learned how to work it into a variety of objects that found a ready market. These items were made from fluorite and it was called blue john and today not many of these items survive and those that do are cherished as antiques. The Chinese base metals, located predominately in Hunan Province, China, also produce a lot of fluorite and the craftsmen in China work this fluorite up into many different forms. We believe the quality of the fluorite they use is superior to that produced by the English mines.
Banded Obsidian or Midnight Lace Obsidian
This material is a natural occurring volcanic glass from the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. It is not easy to export mineral items from Russia, and after you get the material out you then have to have it made into things and in the case of these items it has been made into various items like cabs, donuts etc. The secret of this material is that it must be cut into thin items so that you can see the attractive black banding with the clear obsidian between the black bands. This material is new on the market and we don't know yet what the new age community will say about it or what special magical powers they will tell us it has. This far we have:
Midnight Lace Obsidian:
Soapstones:50x70mm. $10 net.
Soap Stones: 70mm ovals
Doughnuts:
50mm $5 each net.
40mm $4 each net.
30mm $3 each net.
Obsidain hearts: 20mm with brass bale
$1.50 each net.
Obsidian Angles:
30mm tall with brass bail, silver plated: $8 each net.