Nevada Druzy Drusy Quartz
Druzy or Drusy got its name fron the fuzzy optical effect you get while looking at the overall piece or stone The name was created when the Ariziona Druzy Blue Chryscolla was found. Sometimes this looks velvet almost but the crystal sizes get larger and the overall optical effect changes. My druzy has mostly medium sized crystals. Solid and strong they do not flake off and all are on a solid natural base of Jasper agate. Extremely durable and strong. I can honestly say the Nevada Druzy is the absolute best Druzy in the world except perhaps some of the Arizona Chrysocolla Druzy of old. The Fake drusy that 99% of the internet listed item are...on the other hand is unstable and just a matter of time or circumstances until it reverts back to its original status and original white color --of junk.
I have discovered a location in Nevada that has a rare (and many colors!) deposit of Druzy Quartz. It has every basic color of the color chart including a few shades of blue and red. I have a sampling of this material for sale and listed at my ebay store. The Deposit is very small and found in the Muddy Mountains area of Southern Nevada I of course will keep the exact location secret for many reasons., one is to keep the place unspoiled and of course to protect my exclusive offerings of this Rare new find -100% Natural Drusy Stones. I have been in this Buisness for a long time and I have yet to see anything like the Nevada Drusy Quartz I offer. This is basically a new find. I have the material to cut about 3-5000 top quality stones so this is not an small insignificent find. Colors range but most are greens or violets, golds, browns, greys, whites with other colors being rare from this site.
So what is the Drusy being sold by all the Major Jewelry Outlets on the Internet? FAKE FAKE FAKE. 99.99% of the material on the internet is simply put "not real"- An outright Fraud being sold by well known major jewelry internet outlets.. it should be a crime. The real joke is they offer it as genuine and natural. a total lie. Some is real Quartz most is Lab created. Almost all is dyed with a simple solution of agate dye available at any lapidary shop. Simple white "clear" druzy (extremely common- not to be confused with snowy white drusy i offer) is thrown in vat of dye and presto a magical stone ... until you wear the fake useless junk for a few months then it reverts back to what it was junk. Some also is doublets - top half is white cheap drusy and bottom half is a layer of color glued to the top half. DYED Quartz can be spotted easily to the trained eye.
The colors are obviously the first give away- almost all dyed quartz are unreal phony colors not seen in nature like day glow pink. real druzy comes with calcite deposits between the crystals. it is a lot of work to get these deposits out (as I DO and know) with a solution to remove them.. in some cases it takes weeks to get crystals looking their best (oxalic acid bleaching compounds is used on all quartz crystals within the US to clean them- (same as oxyclean :) -these chemicals are easy to buy and non toxic to the enviroment and you -this is necessary and only enhanses them back to their natural state) The cheap chinese junk on the market is not even cleaned before they dyed - so - the calcite absorbes the dyes leaving ugly dark areas between the crystals.. these can be seen in pictures if you look closely. NON Quartz Druzy is almost always too soft to wear in jewelry with some being so soft to fall apart if you scratch with your fingernail. Also note -the green garnet rough druzy is Lab created, regardless of the claims otherwise.
I really doubt the public knows that real Druzy is even available. Always insist on " Genuine real Quartz" natural color Drusy Druzy. Obviously it costs more than the fake junk Drusy being offered on the internet because it is very rare. The titanium being offered is ALL lab created. and other stones are very soft and not suitable for jewelry wear.
The Druzy I am selling has 100% REAL Color and is real quartz, not dyed, not glued ... all real. and as far as i know almost unique in the fact that it rarely occurs and is even more rarely offered in any quanity for sale. Perhaps a single piece occasionally is offered for sale. A real bargain if you know how to tell the difference between real and fake Druzy. If you work with druzy or own a real piece the fake is oh so easy to spot, even in photos. I personally have cut enough of these stones to call myself an expert. I doubt any others have cut anywhere near the quanity I have of real druzy because it just does not exist in quanities normally. I do have 5 years worth of rough cutting material set aside for future cutting so keep this site bookmarked if you are a Druzy lover. My material is so easy to spot on the internet because it is real and nothing looks like real druzy except real druzy. :-)
Colored Druzy if Natural is extremely RARE. I find the stones in the mountains of Nevada, then the task of hiking in and out in of desert Photo Views Of Nevada Desert . I try to make the rough druzy drusy pieces small enough to carry home :-) and to fit in my back pack. Druzy Quartz only forms in certain conditions. it takes time and an open pocket giving the crystals room to grow I would imagine at least a million years -- often you have to smack a suspect rock with a hammer to crack open the treasures. not for the weak as this is certainly a task in most instances. Color in Drusy comes in two different ways and this is why Drusy is so rare if it is real. It is either actually colored crystals or the crystals are clear and the backing rock is colored. 95% of the drusy found in my deposit is naturally solid colored small crystals. I find these colors -> Greens, reds (rare), violets, golds, pinks, bluish, browns, snowy whites, greys plus many others and rarely a mix of two colors in one stone.
I have a diamond Saw and a Diamond Genie Cutting Machine and I simply reduce the size of the stones until i can offer them as Natural Druzy jewelry stones. grinding only the backs and sides and then polishing the same. very easy to cut as nature has created the perfect stone.. the job is to simply present it nothing else is needed.
Druzy is very dificult for me and others to photograph so please keep this in mind if looking at my photos :-). The problem being you have to use the macro mode on the camera and of course the camera will focus on one part of the stone but the other parts will be out focus.
I hope this artice helped to understand what Druzy is. I hope to do more in the future on Druzy as I find the stone material to be very interesting
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