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Uvarovite rarely becomes a traditional gemstone. Instead, it covers its matrix with hundreds of tiny green garnets, as though stone decided to grow a garden.

Grape agate looks as though a mineral garden learned to bear fruit. Those lavender spheres are real, but the familiar trade name hides a more complicated quartz story.

Dragon’s Blood Quartz looks as if clear stone learned to hold embers. The name is poetic; the mineral story beneath it is quartz and iron.