The Divine Mine

Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz crystal composed of silicon dioxide with traces of iron. Helpful in ridding nightmares. Just hold the Amethyst crystal on the forehead for a minute and ask it to guide you through a peaceful sleep, then place it under your pillow. Also helpful to calm an overworked and overstressed mind.

Ametrine, also known as trystine is a variety of quartz. It is a mixture of amethyst and citrine with zones of purple and yellow or orange. The colour difference is due to differing oxidation states of iron within the crystal which is caused by a temperature gradient during its formation.

As a healing stone, many believe it to have the powers of both amethyst and citrine, making it both a good money stone and to aid spiritual enlightenment. It is said to bring inner peace and tranquility.

Apache tears are a type of obsidian, which is a natural glass, formed as a result of lava that cooled quickly. The tears are thought to represent tears of grief shed by Native American Indians after the death of their sons and husbands from invading troups. It is said to ease and release pain, sadness and anger.

Aragonite is a stabilizing stone that centers and grounds physical energies. It eases adaptation to different situations and people.

Atlantisite, also called tasmanite, is a combination of green serpentine and stichtite. As a healing stone, it promotes a more relaxed attitude to life, balancing mood swings and promoting inner peace. It can encourage us to solve any conflict in a much more peaceful way. Atlantisite is considered to bring the healing energies and access to past lives of Atlantis and Lemuria.

Green aventurine is translucent green quartz with chrome mica inclusions. It is often mistaken for jade. The name aventurine derives from the Italian a ventura meaning by chance. As a healing stone, it was once thought to draw out the heat of fevers, inflammation and nervous system stress. Green aventurine is a popular meditation and healing stone and is said to promote tranquility, positive attitudes, health and well-being.

Black is one of the many colours of tourmaline. However, since it is pleochroic, it might be green when viewed along a different axis. This crystal is also piezoelectric which means that through mechanical action an electric pulse is formed, similar to quartz.

As a healing stone, black tourmaline is said to protect against cell phones and radiation. It grounds energy, clears negative thoughts and increases physical vitality. It is said to strengthen the immune system, treat arthritis and provide pain relief.

Onyx helps to release negative emotions, sorrow, grief and it guards against negativity directed at you.

Blue tiger eye, also known as hawk’s eye is a gemstone closely related to the well known gold tiger eye. In the gold variety, crocidolite is replaced by quartz while its fibrous structure is preserved. In this blue variety, the transformation is only partial, leaving the blue colour to remain. The shimmering eye-like nature, called chatoyancy, is caused by these newly created fibers.

As a healing stone, blue tigers eye is calming and cooling, it helps relieve stress. Use it to resolve restricting and negative thought patterns.

Highly polished semi-precious stones that are smooth to the touch. Earth stones are easy to carry in pockets and bags and a great way to appreciate the natural beauty of gemstones.

The deeply integrated colours of brecciated jasper come from iron oxides and organic material embedded into this form of chalcedony. Its texture can be dramatically fragmented or have smooth swirls of colours that include brick red, creams, dark chocolate brown and earthy blacks and tans.

As a healing stone brecciated jasper enhances organizational abilities, relaxation, and a sense of wholeness. It aligns the chakras and balances the yin-yang, physical, and emotional. It is a stone of protection, and is used in particular for protection during astral travel. Brecciated jasper encourages attunement and communication with animals and can help with animal allergies, plus other allergies. It brings happiness, a good outlook on life and eases stress.

Found in Madagascar, celestite it is composed of strontium sulfate. The sky blue or celestial colour of this crystal makes it very popular among collectors.As a healing stone, celestite is great for promoting communication skills and clarity of mind. It is also excellent for use in dream recall and astral travel.

Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite. This reddish-brown-gray stone has a distinctive graphite cross in the center. As a healing stone, it is powerfully protective that can be used to dispel negative thoughts. Mentally it aids problem solving by strengthening analytic capabilities.

CITRINE, a form of quartz, shows a range of translucent colors from sunny yellow to brown. This citrine is heat treated amethyst.

As a healing stone, it is a powerful healing quartz. Good for solar plexus; mental and emotional clarity, problem solving, memory, willpower, optimism, joy, confidence, and self-discipline. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, and allergies. Enhances body’s healing system and tissue regeneration. Attracts abundance and the ability to manifest.

Crazy Lace Agate is a variety of banded chalcedony, a mineral of the quartz family. It is predominantly white, with layers of creamy browns, blacks and grays. Some may include layers of yellow ochre, gold, scarlet and red. As a healing stone it is considered the laughter stone that brings support and optimism.

This green and red jasper is from South Africa. It is often confused with Dragons Blood Jasper or Septarian which is commonly known as Dragons Egg. As a healing stone, it is a strengthener of the physical and etheric bodies particularly when illness or other negative conditions have brought one’s vitality down. Its influence assists the body in the spiritual purification of the blood, and of the cells. It is a wellspring of prana, and it can consistently help one find one’s inner ‘reset’ so that the body and energy fields regain their resonance with a pattern of health, stability and emotional wellbeing.

Garnet is a family of silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminum. The name originates from the stone’s resemblance to red pomegranate seeds (malum granatum). Due to its hardness, garnet is used largely in abrasives.

Known as the stone of health, extracting negative energy from the chakras, and transmuting the energy to a beneficial state.  Garnet is said to enhance ones internal fire, bringing the creative powers to the stage of implementation.

Goldstone is manmade glass with flecks of copper suspended in it. Its invention occurred by accident in seventeenth-century Venice by the Miotti family. The glass is made in a reducing furnace with copper salts added, this smelts the copper salts back to copper, which then crystallizes.

As a healing stone, it is the stone of ambition and drive and has a gently uplifting quality. The metaphysical properties of copper are said to be the ability to aid the circulatory system, help strengthen bones and fight arthritis pain.

Lava Stone, also known as Basalt, combines the elements of earth and fire to bring strength, energy, passion, self-restraint and common sense. Lava stone aids healing by increasing vitality and feelings of joy. It brings stability, grounding and a feeling of connection to the earth.

The manganese in this variety of calcite gives it a pink colour. Calcite is composed of the same material as limestone: calcium carbonate. This transparent to opaque mineral can be found in a variety of colours when it is charged with impurities.

As a healing stone Mangano Calcite is said to soothe emotions and raise awareness. Amplifies energy, allowing you to connect to body, mind and soul energies. Excellent for the heart chakra, awakening self-love and nurturing.  Heals nervous conditions, and lifts tension and anxiety.

Moonstone (orthoclase) is a semi-translucent stone that is made of albite and feldspar. Moonstone was very popular early in the 20th century and was extensively used in Art Nouveau jewellery.

MOONSTONE is said to be balancing, introspective, reflective and lunar. It is capable of helping one with the changing structures of ones life on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.

OPALITE is a man-made opalized glass resin that is fused with metal to create an opalescent effect. It generally appears milky iridescent and is often used to place on the crown chakra. Others choose it to soothe frayed nerves.

Opalite is a highly energetic stone. Good for meditation, opalite can also remove energy blockages, give us strength and improve communication.

Highly polished semi-precious stones that are smooth to the touch. Earth stones are easy to carry in pockets and bags and a great way to appreciate the natural beauty of gemstones.

Calcite is composed of the same material as limestone: calcium carbonate. This semi-transparent crystal can be found in a variety of colours, such as orange, when it is charged with impurities.

As a healing stone, calcite is a powerful crystal that helps clarify vision, as well as clean toxins from the body and reduce stress. Orange calcite is said to restore mental and emotional equilibrium. It is often used to lift dark moods, especially after traumatic events.

Calcite is composed of the same material as limestone: calcium carbonate. This transparent crystal can be found in a variety of colours, such as orange, when it is charged with impurities.

As a healing stone, calcite is a powerful crystal that helps clarify vision, as well as clean toxins from the body and reduce stress.

Picture jasper exhibits combinations of patterns resulting in what appear to be scenes or images. This is caused by water or wind during formation. Ocean jasper has a soothing and nurturing effect and is great for emotional release. It protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energies of the earth.

Prehnite is a silicate which is usually light green to yellow in colour. It is the first mineral to be named after someone; Colenel Hendrik Von Prehn. Prehnite rarely forms distinct crystals, usually it forms as stalactites or botroidals. This particular prehinite is more specifically epidote in prehinite with black tourmaline.

As a healing stone, prehnite strengthens the life force and generally increases and stimulates energy flow. It aids spiritual communication through meditation or visualization, and is a powerful dream stone. It is also helpful in the healing of gout, anemia, and kidney problems.

This variety of alkali feldspar is of the orthoclase variety. As magma gradually cools, albite within the mineral forms alternating layers which create a shimmering glow known as adularescence. The quality of moonstone varies and may range from a light milky glow to a bright blue glow, with the highest quality displaying a rainbow sheen. Moonstone occurs within igneous rocks such as pegmatite and granite.

As a healing stone Rainbow Moonstone is said to be a refined, high - vibrational stone, works as an activation stone. Has a powerful effect on unawakened potential and creating a gateway to exceedingly high levels of consciousness and multi-dimensions. Enables you to have a foot in both worlds - physical, and spiritual. 

Highly polished semi-precious stones that are smooth to the touch. Earth stones are easy to carry in pockets and bags and a great way to appreciate the natural beauty of gemstones.

Rose quartz is a member of the largest family of stones, the silica group, and is composed of silicon dioxide with traces of titanium, maganese or iron which gives it a pink hue.

As a healing stone, it emits a calming, cooling energy which can work on all of the chakras to gently remove negativity and to reinstate the loving, gentle forces of self-love. The pink colour of rose quartz has been symbolic of love throughout the ages.

Ruby Zoisite from India. Each stone has been hand polished and being a product of nature, sizes and shapes will vary. 

Said to strengthen the energy field of the body, allowing a better use of the mind’s potential. Helps to be fully aware of one’s relation to all humanity. 

Rutilated quartz is quartz crystals, which are made of silicon dioxide, that contain electronically conductive titanium fibres. As a healing stone, rutile intensifies the power of the quartz crystal and can amplify thought and emotions for healing. Rutilated quartz deepens altered states and is excellent for clairvoyance, telepathy and insight.

SMOKY QUARTZ is said to help us to live in the present moment. Good for organizational skills, it clears up miscommunications, opens up the paths of perception.

Each stone, being product of nature, will have varying sizes and shapes.

Sodalite is a royal blue stone with white veining. It is a hard, yet fragile stone that is named after its sodium content. It is somewhat similar to lapis though it rarely contains pyrite and its veining sets it apart.

As a healing stone, it has been known since antiquity as the stone of artists because it is believed to be able to promote inspiration and creativity while also providing protection. Enhances communication and expression. Cuts through density and illusion bringing clarity and truth. Calms and clears the mind allowing it to become logical and rational.

This variety of feldspar is of the plagioclase variety. The orange-gold and sometimes brown sunstone formed in molten lava. It displays reflections from minute scales of hematite or sometimes goethite, pyrite or copper. The glittery effect is known as aventurescence due to the similar visual effect found in aventurine. It is related to labradorite and moonstone, other types of feldspars also known for the schiller effect they produce.

As a healing stone Sunstone is said to clear and energize the chakras. Dissipates fearfulness, alleviates stress and increases activity. Encourages you to shine. Used in the native medicine wheel to represent the connection with the golden white light.

Ultra smooth semi-precious stones with a thumb sized indent are the perfect gift for soothing frazzled nerves using the healing energy of gem stones. Designed to fit comfortably in the hand these can be used for crystal healing or display. Place them under pillow, on parts of the body during meditation, use for massage or simply hold them to benefit from their metaphysical attributes.

Hematite is the mineral form of iron oxide. It is coloured black to silver-grey. Hematite is harder than pure iron but much more brittle. It will often form in layers at the bottom of a body of standing water or sometimes as the result of volcanic activity.

As a healing stone hematite is known as a stone for the mind. It brings mental organization and is very grounding and calming. It helps with original and logical thinking and decreases negativity. Use it to help balance the body/mind/spirit. Physically it has been used to keep the body cool, to decrease blood disorders, nervous problems and insomnia.

Ultra smooth semi-precious stones with a thumb sized indent are the perfect gift for soothing frazzled nerves using the healing energy of gem stones. Designed to fit comfortably in the hand these can be used for crystal healing or display. Place them under pillow, on parts of the body during meditation, use for massage or simply hold them to benefit from their metaphysical attributes.

Calcite is composed of the same material as limestone: calcium carbonate. This semi-transparent crystal can be found in a variety of colours, such as orange, when it is charged with impurities.

As a healing stone, calcite is a powerful crystal that helps clarify vision, as well as clean toxins from the body and reduce stress. Orange calcite is said to restore mental and emotional equilibrium. It is often used to lift dark moods, especially after traumatic events.