Short answer: on a jewelry label, "turquoise," "stabilized," "reconstituted," "dyed," and "howlite" are not one thing dressed up five ways — they describe how much natural stone is...
Short answer: turquoise is a soft, porous stone that ranks only 5 to 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, so the rule is the opposite of most modern...
Short answer: turquoise is one of the oldest gemstones people have worn, and across many cultures it has been carried as a talisman believed to bring protection and...
Short answer: turquoise is a soft, porous, sky-blue-to-green mineral — a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium — and most of the affordable turquoise you see in jewelry...
Short answer: agate the stone is one of the more water-tolerant gemstones you can wear — it is a form of quartz that sits at about 6.5 to...
Short answer: green agate is a green-toned banded chalcedony that people have linked, for centuries, with calm, balance, and growth — but those are cultural and symbolic associations,...
Short answer: most of the vividly colored agate you see in fashion jewelry has been dyed or heat-treated, but a dyed agate is still real agate — genuine...
Short answer: agate is a banded form of chalcedony, which is a microcrystalline (very fine-grained) variety of quartz.
