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Lumora
Lumora: Crystal Identifier
Field notes
- Reading a stone by its weight in your palm The hand knows the mineral before the eye does
- What inclusions and veils are telling you The interior weather of a stone, read slowly
- The Mohs scale, used the way collectors use it Fingernail, copper, steel. And the showpiece left alone.
- Telling amethyst from dyed quartz and glass Three quiet tests for the most-faked stone in the drawer
- Selenite, satin spar, and the gypsum family Three stones, one mineral, and the small honesty of naming
- The quartz family and its many faces One mineral, six moods, all sitting in your drawer
- Moonstone, labradorite, and the feldspar shimmer Tell them apart by tilt, not by name
- Tourmaline, from schorl to watermelon One mineral, the whole spectrum, the same crystal lattice
- What to write down the night a stone arrives The first entry is the spine of every entry after
- Provenance, and why the place matters Two amethysts. Same name. Different countries, different stones.
- Sketching a stone you don't yet understand The hand sees what the eye keeps missing
- How collectors actually store the small ones The drawer is part of the practice too
- What the moon phase changes about a stone's care A quiet calendar the cabinet keeps on its own
- The stones that should never see water A short list, and the dry ways to tend them
- The stones that fade in direct sun A slow loss, almost always unnoticed
- The first stone, and why it stays The one at the bottom of the drawer, still waiting to be written down
- When a stone is ready to leave the collection On the piece you keep picking up and setting down
- Reading what drew you to a stone Lay them all out. The pattern is already there.