Andean Opal
Andean Opal contains a combination of some or all of the following colours: a swirling of pink, black, beige and blue. The most common includes variations of different blues. Due to the “pictures” and earthy coloured stratas often produced, it has also been referred to as a Landscape Opal.
Andean Opal can be used for spiritual journeying to protect, to assist one in selection, and to bring an availability to the locations one wishes to visit. It has been used to facilitate divination as well as instilling knowledge of “right action”.
This stone is found in the Andes Mountains of South America.

Chrysocolla
Chrysocolla’s colours range from a vitreous earthy green to a bluish-green and deep blue.
It is a stone that promotes and enhances physical vitality as well as harmony. By helping one to release the distress arising from negative emotions, it facilitates re-alignment toward the perfect state of health and well-being.
The stone can be found in North and South America.

Jasper
The colour range of jasper includes dark red, orange, yellow, tan, brown, green, grey and blue.
This mineral is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It was considered a sacred stone and often worn by shamans to provide protection. Red jasper induces health and re-birth. It balances the yin-yang energy as well as balancing the physical, emotional and intellectual energies.
The stone comes from Mexico, North America and India.

Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue colour, sometimes flecked with gold.
Lapis lazuli is a “stone of total awareness” and knowledge, helping to expand awareness and intellectual capacity, and allowing for conscious attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of one’s own nature.
The stone comes from Chile and Afghanistan.

Rhodocrosite
The colour range includes pale pink to deep red, yellow, tan, orange and brown. Those crystals in the rose colour range are highly collectable and valued.
This stone has been called a “stone of love and balance”, providing balancing and love on all levels for all bodies. It removes tendencies toward avoidance or denial, and helps one to be willing to both accept and to integrate new information while maintaining a clarity of intellect. It also acts to stimulate the energies of the body, encouraging the maintenance of the state of optimum health.
The stone in the rose colour range comes from Uruguay and Argentina, in South America.

Serpentine
Serpentine’s colour range includes green, black-green, brown-red, brown-yellow, and white. The most highly prized is the light green colour.
This stone is one that helps to connect the wearer or user to their higher self. It can be used to clear the clouded areas of the chakras, and to stimulate the crown and general self-awareness. It is also an excellent stone for enhancing the meditative state.
This stone can be found in many places in the world, which include Australia and North and South America.

Sodalite
The colour range includes a dark, almost midnight blue colour.
This stone helps to eliminate confusion, and to both equalize and stimulate one’s intellect. It also facilitates the manifestation of the qualities of companionship and mutual dependence, encouraging self-esteem, self-trust and trust in others.
The stone comes from Brazil.

Spondylus
Spondylus is a shell, and was considered to be more precious than gold by the Inca peoples. In fact, they called it “red gold”. It can only and uniquely be found along the Pacific Ocean beaches and coasts of northern Peru and Ecuador.
Spondylus was said to protect the wearer, as well as overseeing physical and spiritual wealth.
It comes in the exotic colours of orange, purple, blood red, and their mixes.

For the crushed stone technique mainly Lapis Lazuli (blue), Jasper (reddish orange/brown), Chrysocolla (Green) & Serpentine (beige/green/sand) are used.