The Gemstones and Crystals, M-Z:

• Malachite: dark and light green stripes
• Moldavite: richly colored translucent green stone, extraterrestrial in origin
• Moonstone: translucent, opalescent white with some bluish undertones; some stones are creamy tan
• Opal: usually white base, with incredible irridescent colors revealed when stone is moved
• Onyx: opaque, parallel bands of color, typically brown, white, black, green, but other colors also
• Obsidian: opaque, shiny black
• Pearl: opalescent white; sometimes grey or black
• Peridot: clear light yellow-green
• Pyrite: shiny gold
• Quartz: often clear, beautiful crystals. Different shades including blue (rare), rose, yellow, smoky. Rutilated quartz has streaks of gold rutilate through the crystal. Phantom quartz has an inclusion in it.
• Rhodochrosite: opaque coral-pink
• Ruby: clear in varying tones of red
• Snowflake Obsidian: opaque dark black with light grey "snowflakes"
• Sugilite: magenta
• Tiger's Eye: brown and gold bands that change as the stone is moved; other colors are red, and blue
• Topaz: clear, usually yellow or golden
• Tourmaline: translucent, shiny in many colors: green, light and dark pink, watermelon, and black
• Turquoise: opaque sky blue

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