Crystals Tumbled

The name of this soft deep aqua coloured stone originates from the Greek ‘to deceive’ since it was often mistaken for other minerals. Apatite is composed of calcium phosphate, which is the same material that makes up human and animal teeth and bones.
 

Hematite is polished oxide of iron and is heavily distributed in rocks and soils. It is colored black to steel or silver-gray, brown to reddish brown, or red.

A pink to purple silicate. From the Greek word, lepidos, meaning scale which alludes to the scaly appearance usually common to the mineral. 
 

Labradorite, which is named after a major discovery in Labrador, is found in volcanic deposits, also known as spectrolite. Its attractive blue and green iridescence makes it suitable in jewellery and as a glaze for ceramics. 
 

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 angelite from Peru is a form of anhydrate that is blue. It is not a common mineral as it easily alters to the much more common mineral gypsum - from the addition of water to its chemical structure.

Quartz is a member of the largest family of stones, the silica group, it is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s continental crust. Since antiquity, it has been used to make jewellery and carvings.