Tumbled stone

Nephrite jade is one of two different mineral species called jade. The other, jadeite which is much rarer may contain a wider variety of hues. Nephrite jade is mainly composed of grays and greens and occasionally yellows, whites and browns. Nephrite also has a number of other synonyms and varieties that often refer to the location it comes from including: BC jade, Canadian jade, Lushan jade, beilstein, kidney stone, lapis nephriticus, nephrit and spinach jade.

Jade is a stone with a long history. Ancient Chinese symbolized it with courage, wisdom, justice and mercy. The soothing green colour of jade makes it a wonderful healing stone, which increases fertility and longevity. It is an emotional balancer that gives the feeling of peace, steadiness and nurturing.

These polished and tumbled agate stones from Brazil have been dyed a variety of bright colours to enhance the natural beauty of the stone.

Agate is also known as chalcedony quartz and comes in many colours and varieties. It is used to harmonize Yin and Yang, help build self-confidence, enhance mental function and strengthen the body/mind. Agate is a good protective energy stone, and also helps the body's connection to the earth. It is considered a good luck stone, and enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect. 

Amazonite encourages trusting behavior, stimulates both sides of the brain and enhances both intuitive perceptions and reasoning.

Ametrine, also known as trystine is a variety of quartz. It is a mixture of amethyst and citrine with zones of purple and yellow or orange. The colour difference is due to differing oxidation states of iron within the crystal which is caused by a temperature gradient during its formation.

As a healing stone, many believe it to have the powers of both amethyst and citrine, making it both a good money stone and to aid spiritual enlightenment. It is said to bring inner peace and tranquility.

Angel Aura is said to be an excellent Aura Cleanser and acts to stimulate and clear all of the Chakra Energy Centers. It is said to assist one in communing with Angels, facilitating conscious contact with angels, spirit guides and inner realm teachers.

This angelite from Peru is a form of anhydrate that is blue. It is not a common mineral as it easily alters to the much more common mineral gypsum from the addition of water to its chemical structure. (This is fair warning not to put these stones in water and perhaps even to store them with silica gel) The name anhydrite literally translates to without water (Ari Hydra). As a healing stone, its name suggests it brings a connection to the higher realms, facilitating angelic communication. It is a very soothing, peaceful, and uplifting stone, quite helpful during times of transition.

The name of this soft deep aqua coloured stone originates from the Greek word to deceive since it was often mistaken for other minerals. Apatite is composed of calcium phosphate, which is the same material that makes up human and animal teeth and bones. As a healing stone, It can help to integrate, coordinate, and balance the emotional, intellectual, physical and etheric bodies. Apatite enhances creativity and awakens the finer inner-self. Wearing or carrying Apatite has produced hunger suppression.

Aragonite is a stabilizing stone that centers and grounds physical energies. It eases adaptation to different situations and people.

Atlantisite, also called tasmanite, is a combination of green serpentine and stichtite. As a healing stone, it promotes a more relaxed attitude to life, balancing mood swings and promoting inner peace. It can encourage us to solve any conflict in a much more peaceful way. Atlantisite is considered to bring the healing energies and access to past lives of Atlantis and Lemuria.

Green aventurine is translucent green quartz with chrome mica inclusions. It is often mistaken for jade. The name aventurine derives from the Italian a ventura meaning by chance. As a healing stone, it was once thought to draw out the heat of fevers, inflammation and nervous system stress. Green aventurine is a popular meditation and healing stone and is said to promote tranquility, positive attitudes, health and well-being.

Bamboo leaf agate is composed of deep red to pale pink hues combined with golden and cream colours.

Agate is also known as chalcedony quartz and comes in many colours and varieties. It is used to harmonize Yin and Yang, help build self-confidence, enhance mental function and strengthen the body/mind. Agate is a good protective energy stone and also helps the body's connection to the earth. It is considered a good luck stone and enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect.

Black moonstone is from the feldspar family of minerals. It is black with glimpses of white. Tiny albite crystals within the stone provide a shimmering glow known as adularescence.

In healing circles, black moonstone is known for its feminine energies. It is said to enhance intuition and inner knowing.

Black is one of the many colours of tourmaline. However, since it is pleochroic, it might be green when viewed along a different axis. This crystal is also piezoelectric which means that through mechanical action an electric pulse is formed, similar to quartz.

As a healing stone, black tourmaline is said to protect against cell phones and radiation. It grounds energy, clears negative thoughts and increases physical vitality. It is said to strengthen the immune system, treat arthritis and provide pain relief.

Bloodstone, also known as heliotrope is solid green jasper dotted with bright red spots of iron oxide. One of the oldest gemstones known to mankind, the use of which has been recorded from ancient times. This bloodstone comes from India. As a healing stone it has been used to calm, ground, revitalize & reduce emotional stress since antiquity. Bloodstone is said to strengthen the heart, spleen and bone marrow.

The Blue Aura Quartz is said to be very stimulating for the throat chakra, activating the third eye, bringing concentration and clarity of mind. It helps to develop clairvoyance and clairaudience.

BLUE LACE - inspirational stone used to promote inner attunement. Relieves stress and reduces high blood pressure. Encourages clear communication and is excellent to use when public speaking. Prevents healers from becoming exhausted 

Onyx helps to release negative emotions, sorrow, grief and it guards against negativity directed at you.

Blue tiger eye, also known as hawk’s eye is a gemstone closely related to the well known gold tiger eye. In the gold variety, crocidolite is replaced by quartz while its fibrous structure is preserved. In this blue variety, the transformation is only partial, leaving the blue colour to remain. The shimmering eye-like nature, called chatoyancy, is caused by these newly created fibers.

As a healing stone, blue tigers eye is calming and cooling, it helps relieve stress. Use it to resolve restricting and negative thought patterns.

BRONZITE - is said to promote loving equitability and unprejudiced discernment within the user. Provides stimulus for decisiveness of that which has not been resolved in one’s life. Helps achieve the state of certainty without willfulness.

BUMBLE BEE JASPER is said to enable us to embrace change, discover new opportunities and help us find our sense of purpose through boosting our self-esteem. If you feel ungrounded this stone is perfect for balancing the spirit and grounding the physical and emotional body.

CACOXENITE - known as a Stone of Ascension, is believed to raise the spiritual awareness of the human race and to provide a loving and ethereal connection between all of the universe. It encourages a conscious awareness of the significance in random events to guide us on the right path, and in sensing the essence of the Creator in the beauty of nature and the kindness of people.

Carnelian, the red or orange variety of chalcedony AKA agate, contains various iron compounds. As a healing stone, it is a known for motivation and has been called the self-esteem stone. It assists in focusing on the present, stimulates appetite, physical energy, emotions, passion, and concentration.

Natural Cat's Eye imparts generosity, good luck, prosperity, optimism, serenity, and happiness. This protection stone stimulates creativity and kindness.

Found in Madagascar, celestite it is composed of strontium sulfate. The sky blue or celestial colour of this crystal makes it very popular among collectors.As a healing stone, celestite is great for promoting communication skills and clarity of mind. It is also excellent for use in dream recall and astral travel.

Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite. This reddish-brown-gray stone has a distinctive graphite cross in the center. As a healing stone, it is powerfully protective that can be used to dispel negative thoughts. Mentally it aids problem solving by strengthening analytic capabilities.

The colours of chrysocolla are blue, green and turquoise, it often has inclusions that consist of browns and yellows. The colours in this stone are reminiscent of looking down at the earth from space. As a healing stone it is gentle, soothing and alleviates tension. Excellent for the heart centre to allow flexibility, self-forgiveness, peace and patience. Also for the throat centre, to express feelings and verbal/artistic creativity. Helpful for female disorders.

CITRINE, a form of quartz, shows a range of translucent colors from sunny yellow to brown. This citrine is heat treated amethyst.

As a healing stone, it is a powerful healing quartz. Good for solar plexus; mental and emotional clarity, problem solving, memory, willpower, optimism, joy, confidence, and self-discipline. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, and allergies. Enhances body’s healing system and tissue regeneration. Attracts abundance and the ability to manifest.

Copper is known to be a good conductor of energies from our Higher Nature. It has a balancing and stabilizing effect wherever it is placed.

Information gathered from shell whisperers claim that Money Cowrie shells bring money abundance and support and abundance of pure heart energies. They were the original form of money used by our long ago ancestors.

These tumbled crackle quartz stones from Brazil have been polished and dyed a variety of bright colours to enhance the natural beauty of the stone. This stone mix is great to use on its own, or with our range of displays, especially jewellery cages.

This green and red jasper is from South Africa. It is often confused with Dragons Blood Jasper or Septarian which is commonly known as Dragons Egg. As a healing stone, it is a strengthener of the physical and etheric bodies particularly when illness or other negative conditions have brought one’s vitality down. Its influence assists the body in the spiritual purification of the blood, and of the cells. It is a wellspring of prana, and it can consistently help one find one’s inner ‘reset’ so that the body and energy fields regain their resonance with a pattern of health, stability and emotional wellbeing.

The Dumortierite's flowing energy is said to assure a balance of energy as your life unfolds and flows. To keep your life moving forward towards your goals use the water elements energy.

Emerald is a green beryl. While pure beryl is colourless, emerald is coloured by chromium and also vanadium. The stone can be transparent to opaque.

It is considered the stone of successful love as it stimulates the heart and clears and heals the emotional body. It also enhances memory and stimulates abundance by releasing feelings of unworthiness.

These ammonites are sliced in half to show each individual chamber. Ammonite, which means coiled horn, was an air breathing invertebrate. It looked like an ancestor of the squid except its body was protected by a coiled, chambered shell. Ammonites flourished throughout the Mesozoic Era - about 250 million years ago. Considered to be a protective stone that provides stability and structure.

No two pieces are alike. Each one will slightly vary in size, shape and colour.

The name orthoceras refers to the long, straight conical shell. Orthoceras fossils are common, with global distribution in any marine rock, especially limestone. They are widespread in North America and also found in Morocco. These are the most common of the cephalopods which lived between 200 to 450 million years ago. Living cephalopods include the squid, octopus and Nautilus. The Nautilus is the most similar to the orthoceras because of its fully developed shell. What's interesting about this mollusk is that its feet grew out of its head! Each time its body became too big for the shell, a dividing wall, called a septa, grew to separate the old living chamber from the new one, this is what creates the fascinating lines we see in the shell fossils today! Orthoceras were able to propel themselves backward by releasing water from a tube that ran along its body, called a siphuncle, this tube also helped to create buoyancy when empty. All living relatives of these creatures are predators, so it can be assumed that the orthoceras dined on trilobytes! This makes an excellent starter piece or addition to any fossil collection.

No two pieces are alike. Each one will slightly vary in size, shape and colour.

Approx. 4 - 5 cm pieces