Let’s speak about new fakes + misconceptions available in the market just lately, particularly round Blue Rose Quartz.
In the event you’ve been scuffling with working along with your crystals successfully, realizing easy methods to keep away from misrepresentations, fakes, and CONFUSION will make you rather more confident. Avoiding the “Fakes”, errors or misrepresentations will flip that wrestle round —
and preserve you from losing time with fakes that don’t even work or is probably not what you suppose it’s. No marvel you’re not getting constant outcomes!! Shopping for into these things finally ends up losing your vitality and a ton of cash too.
I can’t say it sufficient…
I’m so grateful to our Hibiscus Moon Licensed Crystal Practitioner college students who convey these things to my consideration! (That’s how I preserve my finger on the heartbeat of this crystal misrep-stuff.)
It’s been my gig all alongside this crystal journey — to level out that there appeared to be a little bit of an info-gap in our crystal group on some good, stable, easy-to-understand information relating to this kind of factor.
Being a former science division head, having studied geology on the Masters’s stage, and being a crystal writer plus the founding father of the Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, with a comparatively massive following provides me a very good cause and platform to coach about crystal fakes.
My aim is to coach our crystal group on what’s at present fooling us or being misrepresented in the marketplace so we are able to make clever shopping for choices. In the event you really feel enthusiastic about this, too, please share this submit in any approach you like. (By the way in which, there are some “SHARE” buttons you should utilize under).
Alright, let’s dig into what I think about to be a MAJOR misrepresentation:
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Blue Rose Quartz
What within the HELL?
Yep. Right here we go.
It began once I had a rash of my CCP college students asking me about this “new” Blue Rose Quartz popping up all over the place in the marketplace.
It’s supposedly “Blue Rose Quartz” from Madagascar.
Thanks to Graphic Designer and School, Alexis from Crew HM for sharing these photos of “blue rose quartz” with us
I did some poking round my normal geology haunts/golf equipment and came upon it’s additionally generally dubbed as “Girasol,” opalized Quartz. (Opal begins out as silica [SiO2] dissolved in water. When the silica answer fills an empty pocket, possibly left behind by one thing that dissolved away way back — similar to Jell-o poured right into a mildew; it will possibly harden to type an opalized copy of the unique.).
Did ya know?: This complete opalizing course of may be lab-forced too.
This is also the results of heating a low-grade Amethyst above 932°F (500°C) which not solely bleaches it out (sure, we’ve executed experiments, and you may attempt it too) however may end up in an opal-y, milky look, leading to so-called ‘neon blue quartz’ or simply “neon quartz”.
Even greater warmth will bleach out the lilac colour utterly, and tiny water droplets could type within the quartz, which is what creates opal, aka Girasol.
Girasol
Nevertheless, utilizing the time period “Girasol” will get a bit complicated.
In Italian, the phrase refers to a “turning solar” and instantly interprets to “sunflower” (cuz, ya know… it turns with the daylight). Now in geology, this refers to an opal stone with a cloudy bluish-white glow, a ghost-like impact attributable to gentle scattering. Gems akin to Moonstone and opals, and different kinds of feldspars can exhibit this phenomenon. It’s characterised by a luminous reflection of sunshine, showing as white or coloured (usually bluish) gentle, and it could additionally happen as a shimmery sheen that may solely be noticed in particular instructions — attributable to the diffraction and interference of sunshine. The girasol impact describes a mineral impact produced by a scattered gentle impact that strikes or seems to shimmer.
Moonstone pendants show the “girasol impact.”
I seen that a few of what’s being referenced as “Blue Rose Quartz” is technically a bluish-white translucent Opal/Girasol or maybe blended with some mottled type of lower-grade hazy Quartz with generally reddish or rainbow reflections.
SIDENOTE: These items at all times existed. It’s not new!
Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz?
Picture courtesy of CCP Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
Whether or not they use the descriptive colour “lilac” or “lavender,” I see these things most frequently being touted as “high-quality.” Let’s get into {that a} bit.
As I discussed above, robust heating will bleach out the lilac colour utterly from a low-grade Amethyst or milky Quartz and yield tiny water droplets forming within the Quartz = Girasol. *sigh*
Little Lemuria, (owned by ultra-phenomenally good proprietor Jessica Watson, who I received to have a number of geo-geek discussions with whereas speaking about this matter) had a geological assay report executed on the fabric that that they had. You may verify that out right here.
BTW, do you might have ANY concept how impressed I’m by this kind of dedication?
Again within the day, we used to have a grading system that was in frequent use with stone sellers (it’s nonetheless round however I don’t see it getting used that a lot any longer. Hmmmm? Marvel why that’s?) This grading system’s similar to how diamonds are assessed and assigned letters. As an example, “AAA” is the very best grade whereas “D” is the bottom.
Is it Lilac or Lavender Rose Quartz? This can be a stone I offered in my Etsy crystal store again in 2009. I labeled it as Pale Amethyst; D possibly C grade at greatest!
Typically, it’s not even crystal however simply straight-up glass.
I’m simply gonna say it:
This, for essentially the most half, is D low-grade Rose Quartz! In my humble opinion: it appears clearly extra profitable to forgo the grading system and rename it one thing “religious/ethereal”!
Above is Licensed Crystal Practitioner Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm speaking with me forwards and backwards on Instagram about this very situation. Take a look at her go!!! I’m so proud.
Earlier than we go any additional… please permit me to make clear: once I say that it’s low-grade rose quartz, I don’t imply that I wouldn’t work with it or that I personally think about it lower than. I’m making an attempt to convey that this was thought-about by the stone-selling business as a lower-quality of rose quartz (or maybe amethyst) primarily based on business requirements. That does NOT imply that it delivers much less pleasure or energetic impression in any approach as I mentioned on IG right here:
(In the event you’d fairly devour this complete “Blue Rose Quartz” rant in a sorta humorous InstaStory that I’ve turn out to be well-known for, I’ve created a Spotlight for you right here.)
CCP, Amber Curl of Little Crystal Firm
I knew she was one among our Hibiscus Moon college students with out even realizing who this was at first. I may inform simply by how flippin’ devoted she was to figuring this out. 😉 Our Crystal Household is understood for not letting this junk get handed them!
Black Rose Quartz. Ummmm… What the Heck is Occurring Right here?
Yeah. There’s a “Black and Blue” Rose Quartz too!
@AbbyHasHeart shared this with me. What was offered to her as Black Rose Quartz on the left and what was offered to her as Lavender Rose Quartz on the suitable.
If that is what we’re OK with doing and we don’t attempt to cease it now, as I discussed above…
we are able to count on at the least a thousand extra advertising names for numerous Quartz colours within the close to future.
And it gained’t ever cease.
Are you OK with that?
Metaphysical Properties of this Materials
Properly, what in regards to the energetic traits of this materials?
I did nonetheless work with the previous inventory of “lower-grade” rose quartz and amethyst once I had it and to me, it was simply as highly effective as my different rose quartz or amethyst with slight nuances, as is the case with ANY particular person stones I work with. So that is actually one thing you should resolve for your self.
However, we’ve made an impression.
Since my standard pretend weblog submit sequence that I began again in 2010 (and plenty of others prefer it)… our group began calling this shit out, and sellers instantly began altering their descriptions. That is the impression our Crystal Household has had. THIS is how a gaggle of empowered go-to crystal consultants makes change occur. Definitely, first-world issues, however you gotta begin someplace, proper?
We’ve received to remain on our toes. I’m passing the torch to you on these things! OK? I’m not going to be round subsequent 12 months in any respect. It’s now as much as our Crystal Household to maintain the fakes fires burning.
My Blue (or another colour apart from pink) Rose Quartz Conclusion?
It’s sleight of hand trickery, a gimmicky advertising identify to promote stuff common from a comparatively (previously thought-about unattractive) low-quality high quality quartz — a advertising ploy.
Now whether or not we think about it engaging or not, I don’t care. Magnificence is at all times within the eye of the beholder.
What I’m up in arms about is that this was at all times comparatively considerable and offered cheaply earlier than. Is it proper to simply state that it now not is and, subsequently, falsely inflate the worth?
By definition, Rose Quartz is a pink type of Quartz on account of specific nanofibrous inclusions of one thing intently associated to dumortierite.
However all that geo-speak is splitting hairs anyway. Rose Quartz is Quartz.
If it’s blue (or another colour apart from pink to your eyeball ️), it can’t be known as Rose Quartz.
To me, if the pink hue is just not there, it’s not Rose Quartz. Finish of story.
As at all times…
Purchaser Beware: Who’re you shopping for from? Are they respected? Do they know what they’re speaking about? Is the worth too good to be true? Are you doing your personal due diligence + analysis? The easiest way to guard your self is thru training. Hold this in thoughts: All the time use your frequent sense. Don’t merely depend on what the vendor is telling you.
I simply need us all to have the geo-knowledge first. Then you may make a well-informed determination relating to the way you select to work with these stones. All the time use your frequent sense, and the perfect safety from that is to be well-informed.
All of us love the attractive jewels that Mama Earth creates, and also you don’t know what you don’t know…
till higher.
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Crystal Blessings,
