I know some lovely mineral people who aren't at all interested in healing, but they love stones! Where people speak of healing properties, find out what their experience as a healer is. Ask how long they have been in business and what their interest in crystals is. They should be able and willing to tell you - and be happy to do so. What can you do? Ask what the seller’s experience is. I usually don't have the heart to say that it's cheap because it is very poor quality or even not what it claims to be at all. Occasionally this does happen, but it's rare. I often get people showing me crystals they've bought from eBay, or other sources, 'for a great price'. Since it is becoming increasingly normalised and acceptable to lie, there’s no reason not to - especially when profit can be made. To me, as a crystal healer and teacher of many years, it's great to see that more and more people are turning to Mother Nature to take charge of their own healing.īut we live in a profit driven society and many people have seen this surge of interest as an easy way to make money with little or no foundation to build on - no idea of what a crystal is made of or how it is formed, where it comes from, whether it is hard or will scratch easily, whether it is toxic, whether it is good or poor quality, what the energetic properties are. We strongly urge all collectors to steer clear of illegally obtained specimens.So - back to ‘it being hard to know what we are getting out there’ - there are several reasons why it can be difficult to know which crystal information is reliable.įirstly, there's been another huge surge of interest in crystals in recent years. Desert Jasper or Polychrome Jasper listed as coming from China or Antananarivo are highly suspect as being “poached” specimens.Īll of our specimens will be exclusively procured from the Norcross-Madagascar Group (NMG). Please use caution when shopping on “auction” websites. NMG has been forced to go into unexplored reserve areas of the claim to find more of this material. The amount of the rare Desert Jasper stone illegally obtained from the claim, and sent to the local market, was so excessive that the main surface deposit of this material was depleted. Norcross has discovered that 15 separate Chinese groups were stealing rock and minerals inside the claim, with 40-80 tons being shipped to China every month, and 10 tons going to the capital city, Antananarivo for local lapidaries. The Ambarijeby claim is where most of the Madagascar carnelian and Desert Jasper is found. Norcross Madagascar Group (NMG) owns the Ambarijeby claim, which is the main source field in Madagascar consisting of the Majunga region and the Ankondromena region in Madagascar's Middlewest area. It is also referred to as Polychrome Jasper (based on coloring). Norcross found Desert Jasper near Analalava, a coastal town and commune (Malagasy: kaominina) in north-western Madagascar over the Mozambique Channel. It comes from the Norcross-Madagascar Jasper fields. It includes red, pink, brown and grey Jasper mixed in colorful swirling patterns. Polychrome Desert Jasper is a beautiful and colorful Jasper that can best be described as polychrome (the act of decorating things in a variety of colors) in appearance.
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