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When I googled images of 'Helenite', I was surprised to see a lot of this glass being marketed as 'gem rough'. its color is determined by adding colorants to the melt.is easily scratched because of its low hardness.is not rare because it can be produced in great quantities.As stated in that article, please note that this material: You can read all about its background and how it's made HERE. The trademarked name 'Helenite' has since been abandoned, but this glass is also known by other names such as Gaia Stone, Obsidianite, and Mount St. These are NOT natural obsidian, and are just another form of man-made glass. These glass stones can be found in transparent green, blue, and red, and are often found in jewelry marketed to tourists. Helen's eruption is used to create a man-made glass along with coloring additives. *GAIA STONE, HELENITE, OBSIDIANITE, MOUNT ST. I T IS NOT A GEMSTONE! IT IS NOT A MINERAL! IT IS NOT A CRYSTAL! There is NOTHING mystical about glass-it's NOT a mineral and in fact doesn't even possess ANY crystal structure! So sellers offering 'Andara Crystal' with all sorts of names ('Pele's Fire' and 'Merlin's Purple' and Divine Fire' and on and on.) are just selling you a chunk of manmade GLASS. Slag glass is just a big chunk of leftover glass from manufacturing. There are SO many sellers on Etsy and Ebay (and elsewhere online) who are selling slag glass as a mysterious 'Andara Crystal' with mystical and magical powers. There was SO MUCH of these fake gemstones all over the internet that I wrote about it separately! Some are faceted spheres, some smooth spheres, LOTS of skulls and 'eggs' which I didn't bother to picture, glass pieces in green (some shaped like a crystal!), red glass, and a LOT of jewelry or 'gemstones' that are marketed as 'obsidian' but definitely are NOT-they are cheap glass or CZ, but are being sold for top dollar. Here you can see a great variety of glass being sold as 'natural obsidian'. Here are some examples of glass being sold as 'obsidian'-none of these are natural: This is often more than just 'creative marketing' so please BEWARE!

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Some are even selling 'palm' stones or 'thumb' stones, which are nothing more than flat glass 'gems' that you can buy by the bag at Dollar Tree or Michael's! I'm all for free enterprise, but buyers need to be careful not to overspend on glass! Many metaphysical shops on Etsy and elsewhere are offering tumbled GLASS as 'obsidian' with all sorts of metaphysical properties, healing properties, etc. I have written about this jewelry separately, below. Some sellers are even selling faceted blue glass 'gemstones' as 'Obsidian', and none of these are anything other than man-made glass (or some sort of crystal or CZ perhaps). stones are nothing more than man-made GLASS. These transparent blue, green, aqua, red, purple, yellow,etc.

Some 'creative' sellers claim that 'blue obsidian' forms when lava reaches the water! WOW. They claim that it's 'natural', a 'mineral' (which is false-obsidian OR glass are not minerals), 'rare' in colors such as aqua and blue, and even give it names such as 'Himalayan Blue' and 'Siberian Blue' and 'Andara Blue' and 'Gaia Stone*' and many, many more. There are a LOT of sellers on the internet, on Etsy, on Ebay, on all sorts of websites, who are selling colored man-made glass as Obsidian. Apache Tears are naturally smooth nuggets of dark obsidian: Mahogany Obsidian is brown or reddish brown due to iron impurities. Snowflake obsidian has white splotches due to cristobalite spherulites. Sheen Obsidian has blue, green, or golden flashes of color that glows and moves with the light, due to inclusions of torpedo-shaped or needle-shaped gas bubbles. Rainbow Obsidian and Fire Obsidian are colorful due to inclusions of Magnetite nanocrystals.

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