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Walk into any crystal shop and you’ll see clear quartz labeled the “Master Healer,” supposedly capable of amplifying the energy

Amethyst, clear quartz, and citrine are, chemically, the exact same mineral: silicon dioxide. Nothing about the crystal structure changes between

Smoky quartz looks like it should be treated: that even brown-to-black tint doesn’t look like the kind of thing that

Most opal is famous for one thing: play-of-color, the shifting flashes of spectral color that move across the stone as

Most of the specimens in this shop travel a long way to get here — Namibia, Libya, Tanzania, Georgia. But

Pick up a well-formed quartz point and you’ll notice something odd if you stop to think about it: six flat

October is when a rock shop’s spookier inventory finally gets its moment. Nobody had to dye these black or blood-red,

Every crystal shop sells both raw and polished versions of the same minerals, and the choice between them comes down

In a rock shop, almost everything on the shelf gets called “a crystal,” whether it’s a quartz point, a chunk

Buying a rock or crystal as a gift is easy to get wrong if you’re picking blind. Buying one that