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Types of White Stone

Agate​
Agate​

Lace agate is a variety that exhibits a lace-like pattern with forms such as eyes, swirls, bands or zigzags (if these predominate, it is called lattice agate). Crazy lace agate, found in Mexico, is often brightly colored and complexly patterned. Blue lace agate is found in Africa and is especially hard.

Amazonite​
Amazonite​

Amazonite, also called Amazon Jade or Amazon Stone, is a green to blue-green variety of Microcline, a Feldspar mineral that forms in short prismatic or tabular crystals or in masses. It ranges in hue from bright verdigris green to paler shades of turquoise, sometimes with white, yellow or grey portions, and can be translucent to opaque.

Amethyst​
Amethyst​

Amethyst is a stone of spiritual protection and purification, cleansing one’s energy field of negative influences and attachments, and creating a resonant shield of spiritual Light around the body. It acts as a barrier against lower energies, psychic attack, geopathic stress and unhealthy environments.

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Apache Tears​
Apache Tears​

"Apache tears" is the popular term for rounded pebbles of obsidian or "obsidianites" composed of black or dark-colored natural volcanic glass, usually of rhyolite composition and bearing conchoidal fracture.

Carnelian​
Carnelian​

Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semi-precious gemstone. Similar to carnelian is sard, which is generally harder and darker (the difference is not rigidly defined, and the two names are often used interchangeably).

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Chalcedony​
Chalcedony​

Chalcedony's standard chemical structure (based on the chemical structure of quartz) is SiO 2 (silicon dioxide). Chalcedony has a waxy luster, and may be semitransparent or translucent. It can assume a wide range of colors, but those most commonly seen are white to gray, grayish-blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black.

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Chrysocolla​
Chrysocolla​

Chrysocolla has a cyan (blue-green) color and is a minor ore of copper, having a hardness of 2.5 to 7.0. It is of secondary origin and forms in the oxidation zones of copper ore bodies. Associated minerals are quartz, limonite, azurite, malachite, cuprite, and other secondary copper minerals.

Citrine​
Citrine​

Citrine has been referred to as the "merchant's stone" or "money stone", due to a superstition that it would bring prosperity. Citrine was first appreciated as a golden-yellow gemstone in Greece between 300 and 150 BC, during the Hellenistic Age.

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Grossular​
Grossular​

Grossular Garnet is an excellent crystal to soothe and reduce emotional extremes, encouraging social growth and service to community. Associated with the Base, Sacral, Solar Plexus and Heart Chakras, Grossular Garnet is a deeply spiritual stone teaching appreciation of abundance, from physical wealth to spiritual connection to the Divine.

Heliotrope​
Heliotrope​

Common Name For Heliotrope Heliotrope, to some, might sound like some prehistoric animal but is, in actual fact, a gemstone found in quartz beds. This gem is also known as the Bloodstone and is the second birthstone for the month of March on the traditional birthstone listing.

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Hematite​
Hematite​

Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe 2 O 3), one of several iron oxides. It is the oldest known [clarify] iron oxide mineral and is widespread in rocks and soils. Hematite crystallizes in the rhombohedral lattice system, and it has the same crystal structure as ilmenite and corundum.

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Jasper​
Jasper​

Jasper is a very nourishing, warm and protective stone no matter what colour you find the jasper in - be it yellow, green, blue, purple or the deep earthy red. Of course, each color will bring additional energy to the essential energy of jasper.

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Lepidolite​
Lepidolite​

Lepidolite Properties and Meanings With its soft lilac colour and soothing energy, lepidolite is a startlingly beautiful stone. It appears in a variety of shades, depending on the concentration of minerals in it, but pink and lilac shades

Quartzite​
Quartzite​

Quartzite is a decorative stone and may be used to cover walls, as roofing tiles, as flooring, and stairsteps. Its use for countertops in kitchens is expanding rapidly. It is harder and more resistant to stains than granite.

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