Spinel Matrix Gemstone

The Spinel Matrix gemstone is perfect to add to your rock collection!

Spinel is a crystal of calm and renewal, offering encouragement in difficult circumstances; Spinel can help ease levels of stress during times of trauma or crisis like a coping with bereavement, divorce or a change of personal circumstances like a job change.

The majority of gemstones are formed by metamorphism. This is when minerals are forced together under great pressure and heat usually by tectonic plates moving underneath each other. The minerals are forced together and they metamorphose into different minerals, sometimes without melting.

Using a saw, other cutting tool or  chisel and hammer, our lapidarist makes kerfs to split the rocks into separate pieces. Some rocks  pieces are buffed and polished,othersare left in their natural rough state.