Red Carnelian Tumbled Stone Black Copal carved across the world for

carved across the world for thousands of years

Hard-wearing at Mohs 7 and stable in daylight

like selenite

Softer than quartz at Mohs 5

Linalool sits closer to the top of the profile than it does in Salvia apiana

Red Carnelian Tumbled Stone Black Copal carved across the world forCarnelian small tumble polished stones of warm orange red chalcedony, translucent and glowing, the stone Rome cut into signet rings. Smooth in the hand, sold in a small set. From India. It is microcrystalline quartz coloured by iron oxide the same element that rusts orange, dissolved through the silica to a glow that runs apricot to deep brownish red, often within a single stone. The peoples of the Indus etched it thousands of years ago, Egypt set it