Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Red Jasper Black Copal Intenso - Mexican

Black Copal Intenso - Mexican Protium grandifolium

sometimes warming to yellow-green

Most aquamarine is heat-treated to pure blue

The Burseraceae family connects this resin to the wider arc of aromatic chemistry across continents - same family produces frankincense in Arabia

cool and light in the hand

Red Jasper Crystal Bracelet Red Jasper Black Copal Intenso - MexicanRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Earthy and solid, with the weight of fired clay. From India, strung on elastic cord. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from