![]() Natural green obsidian has been found but it is opaque and is more gray than green.The clear green obsidian you see all over ebay is slag glass.Acetone will remove the dye but damage the stone.Low quality howlite, jasper or sodalite is dyed blue, and passed off as lapis.High quality is vibrant blue, hard to come by, and very expensive.The bottom of these stones will be white with more color at the tips.If it’s lab made it’s usually amethyst that’s been heated until it changes color.Much of the citrine on the market is lab made.Literally just car paint layered with calcite and resin.Heat treated stones: (really not a bad thing but if you’re going for natural) other stones may be dyed as well, generally if it looks is.Irradiated: (they irradiate the crystals to get a deeper or more vibrant color) Amber will float in salt water-copal will not.You can do a uv test to see if it’s real.Magnesite and howlite look very very similar to turquoise when they’ve been dyed, magnesite will have very deep cracks in it though.Green quartz can be grown in a lab and anything that forrest green color is.Cinnabar Infused Quartz usually reconstituted and mixed together to make a red crystal. ![]() ![]() Aura quartz is a regular quartz that’s been bonded with another material.(strawberry, cherry, lemon, pineapple, blueberry) yes there may be some very rare exceptions-fire quartz being dubbed strawberry- but due to the rise in fakes with that name it’s generally called fire quartz now. If your quartz has teeny air bubbles it’s glass.Because I have been too lazy to type this all up. ![]()
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