From the very heart of the wintery windswept mountains and the pine clad forests of the northern hemisphere come these stunning wintery gemstones.
Dendrite Quartz
From the vast wintery landscapes of Siberia, comes Dendrite Quartz – a rare and unique fingerprint from Mother Nature. The whitish-grey Quartz base is flecked with delicate, dark patches, like branches of a fir tree poking through a snowy blanket – creating a fascinating one-of-a-kind pattern, captured forever in a gemstone. ‘Dendrite’ comes from Dendron, Greek for ‘tree-like’.
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Chrome Diopside
Think of the rich deep greens you’d find in a verdant forest of fir trees and you could imagine the lush green colour of Chrome Diopside. Sourced in the depths of Eastern Siberia, this highly refractive green gemstone exudes sparkle and brilliance like the iridescent shimmer on the surface of fresh snow. Find out more about Steve's journey to the source of this luminous dark green gemstone here.
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Labradorite
From the surface of a smoky grey-copper stone, comes a kaleidoscope of colours: as light dances across its surface in gorgeous blues and violets, forest greens, golden yellows and sunset oranges, it mimics the appearance of the Northern Lights. The gem has a gorgeous iridescence and is named after the location where it was found on the island of St. Paul, in Labrador, Canada.
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Seraphinite
Known as the Angel stone (from the word Seraphim) Seraphinite has a feathery appearance – like Angel wings. Found in Siberia, the beautiful snow-capped peaks of this region are the perfect background to this beautiful picturesque gemstone. It is formed by the movement of water across existing minerals – called Hydrothermal Metamorphism and is reminiscent of the pattern water creates as it freezes.
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Amber
Imagine the rich colour of the sun locked into a natural organic gemstone. Ranging from opaque cream to rich shades of transparent honey, this Polish sourced gem is a must have. Amber is the fossilised resin from prehistoric trees that once formed ancient forests. Only recently has Amber been proven to be a minimum of 40-45 million years old.
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Muonionalusta Meteorite
Muonionalusta is named after the Muonio River near where it was found, in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland. It has a fine crisscross pattern across a lustrous metallic surface, which cannot be replicated in a lab. Each gemstone is a fragment of the oldest known Meteorite, which impacted at about one million years BC, but was not discovered until 1906.
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