Jet stone jewelry is the most common form of jet in Southwestern jewelry. This stone is actually closer to coal than a precious gemstone. Jet jewelry is made up of the jet rock, which forms when a tree settles underwater where little oxygen can reach it, and so it gets compacted as more and more sediment is piled on the wood. Its beauty lies in the fact it’s not really black – its color is such a dark, deep brown it’s often confused with black.
Acoma jet in Pink Camel’s collection can help with: lessening fear, lessening the symptoms of depression, aiding with survival, and it can also be used as an amulet for travelers.
Amber is not actually a stone – it’s fossilized resin from evergreen trees. Naturally, the Native American amber jewelry in Pink Camel’s collection offers everything an amber stone offers too. Having this stone rest on your skin may help: clear the mind, bring good luck, balance emotion, disperse negative energy, and lessen, or even eliminating fears.
And don’t forget – the Amber we wear today used to be a part of ancient evergreens. That must mean some of that old, natural energy is in the amber itself too.
The black jade stone has a deep black color, almost as deep as the pitch black of the woodland night. Used even in the prehistoric times, this stone has both a rich history and some amazing qualities. While jade can come from two different minerals, black jade can come from either of them (either Nephrite or Jadeite) and can be then colored to blackness by bits of iron oxide or graphite.
Wearing black jade jewelry can help you with protection against harm, repelling and discharging negative energy, self-reflection and developing wisdom. Some even claim black jade is the stone of creativity, opening a path to achieving your creative goals and even encourage ambition.
The blue lapis stone has a magical, almost out of this world blue color. The deeper the blue is, the more valuable the stone is. Be careful though – blue lapis jewelry can be as delicate as it is beautiful. If treated too roughly, blue lapis can crack or end up scratched, also make sure to protect it from chemical cleaning solvents.
Blue stone lapis jewelry can help you with: warding off negative energy, reactivating your creative muscles, augmenting strength and vitality, relieving anger and easing frustrations.
What Chinese turquoise stone means is that these stones have come from Chinese mines. Its colors range from a deep green, through a lighter shade of blue, to a dark blue. Possibly the first use of turquoise was way back in 1700 BC, so a stone with this much history is bound to have some great properties!
As with any other turquoise, Chinese turquoise jewelry can help with: healing, protection, emotional balance, and emotional peace.
Cultured opal has a very close relation to natural made opal. While nature makes opal over a longer period of time, cultured opal is made in the same way, but with a slight difference in its strength – cultured opal is more resistant to heat, grazing, and cracking. The magical play of color and the way the light just makes them come alive in a million dazzling sparks is something both cultured opal, and natural opal have in common.
Cultured opal jewelry just might help you reach a state of deep self-love an joy, and it can also help you with emotional healing, and meditation.
Discovered in Canada in 1977, gaspeite jewelry is still a very new and fresh idea on the market! A rare gemstone, colored in an uncommon green, the gaspeite stone can be found around nickel sulfide deposits. Gaspeite’s color is a strange, wondrous green and brown – the two colors crashing against each other to make the most exquisite and intriguing palettes.
Despite its youth, gaspeite stone jewelry does possess helpful qualities. Wearing some of Pink Camel’s Native American gaspeite jewelry can aid you with clearing clutter, weight loss, healing, and using the energy of coincidences.
The howlite stone is of a stark white color, with some grey, black or brown veining. Discovered in Nova Scotia, this stone goes by many names: Lapis Howlite, White Turquoise, Sacred Buffalo, White Buffalo and Kaolinite. Since it’s porous, it can be dyed in red or green in order to look like other gemstones. However, the gorgeous natural white Howlite jewelry is beyond comparison!
Howlite stone jewelry might help you with: lessening all kinds of stress, soothing the mind, relieving insomnia, stimulating inner strength, and inspiring patience.
Japanese cultured fire opal is, just like cultured opal, more resilient to accidental cracking, scratching or chipping. Like the cultured opal too, Japanese fire opal keeps all the charming dazzling colors of the uncultured fire opal but adds to it an extra dose of strength. Its translucent red is very much like the color of a sunset on a hot summer day.
Like its cousin fire opal, Pink Camel’s Japanese cultured fire opal jewelry might help you with: healing emotional wounds, releasing bad memories, boosting self-confidence, promoting loving relationships, and encouraging sexuality.
The Jasper stone can be in many shades of brown, reddish and yellow – colors that perfectly capture earthy tones of the ground beneath our feet. Just like nature, it contains a multitude of colors, always presented in different patterns – stripes, ringlets, whorls, and specks of color are unique on every piece of Jasper.
Jasper stone jewelry might help you with: developing and continuing business pursuits, providing you comfort and stability, and it can help you keep in mind that you can stay ambitious without exhausting yourself or ruining your health.
The Kingman turquoise stone is not too different from turquoise. What’s really special about this stone is that it comes from one of the oldest turquoise mines in America. Located in the Mineral Park Mine, Arizona, the place where Kingman turquoise stones come from has been known to Native Americans ever since prehistory. Jewelry made out of this stone is a beautiful clear blue, a carrier of so much history behind it!
Like other turquoise stones, wearing Kingman turquoise jewelry can help you with protection against and purification from negative energies.
What’s special about the King Manassa turquoise stone is that it really is a treasure of the Southwest. Mined in south-central Colorado, these stones are full of history. It’s believed that it was the Anasazi Native Americans who first extracted this stone of a deep, rich green color and used it in production of jewelry. The color of Manassa turquoise jewelry ranges from blue-green to a woodland green, with golden or brown non-webbed matrix. It perfectly captures the power and beauty of nature!
King’s Manassa turquoise jewelry, just like turquoise, might help you with: healing, protection against negative energies, and purification of any negativity in your life.
The mother of pearl stone boasts with an almost indescribable color. Ever-shifting shades of off-white to pale pink, it is iridescent, and it delicately shines, giving the impression of a star rising through a cloudy sky. This stone actually comes from abalone and pearl oysters – it’s a coating made up of a blend of minerals that protects the shells. This is probably how it got its name – Mother of pearl, a beautifully colored coating that protects the little pearl in the oyster.
Pink Camel’s Native American mother of pearl jewelry might help you with: clearing your thought, discovering your hidden potentials, strengthening your intuition and imagination, and protecting children.
The orange of the desert sand during a sunrise, the orange spiny oyster gemstone comes from, just like the name says, spiny oysters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. While they may come in different colors, most often they are red, orange, or purple. What’s unique about spiny oyster jewelry is that only the inside edge of the shell develops a color, so making a whole piece of jewelry demands more than a few shells.
Orange spiny oyster jewelry may help with: developing patience, heightening your sense of understanding, and also attuning you to the waves of the sea.
Like all spiny oysters, this one too comes from the deep seas and oceans. The oysters found under the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico come in a variety of colors – depending on their diet. The purple spiny oyster is somewhat different than the others – not only because it boasts a deep, rich violet color, but also because it’s found in deeper water, which makes it much harder to collect and transform into jewelry.
Pink Camel’s purple spiny oyster jewelry might help you with: developing your sense of understanding and patience.
Among many varieties of the spiny oyster shell, this one comes in a strong red. Found in the depths of the Atlantic ocean, Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico, this oyster is found, harvested and transformed into a variety of jewelry pieces – from earrings to necklaces. Aside from red, spiny oysters can come in orange, or purple – the color can depend on their diet and on the depth they can be found in.
Like other spiny oyster stones, Pink Camel’s red spiny oyster jewelry might help you with: attuning yourself with the moving of the sea, developing a deeper sense of understanding and developing patience.
The rhodochrosite gemstone ranges from a delicate pink to a rose-like red. The swirls and coloring of rhodochrosite gemstone jewelry almost look like reddish August sunsets. Striped in zigzag reds and pinks, this stone can be found in Argentina, Mexico, Africa, Peru, Spain and Montana, USA. One very interesting belief about rhodochrosite comes from the Incas – they believed that the spilled blood of their rulers transformed in rhodochrosite.
Wearing rhodochrosite jewelry might help you with: reaching a state of joy, emotional healing, relieving stress due to illness, discovering your purpose, and increasing self-love and compassion.
Sleeping Beauty turquoise stones are unique in multiple ways. First, the mine. This stone is mined in Globe, Arizona from a mountain that looks like a sleeping woman. Secondly, the stone itself – Sleeping beauty turquoise is exceptionally clear, a striking bright blue with almost no webbing or veining. Because of this, and because of its natural strength, it’s most sought after turquoise for jewelry.
Pink Camel’s Native American Sleeping Beauty turquoise jewelry might help you with: dispersing negative energy, protection against negative outside influences, clearing your thoughts, and heighten your awareness about the infinite possibilities the universe can offer you.
The white magnesite stone comes in a perfectly pure white of the clouds on a clear blue sky. While this stone can range from grey and brown to even pink (depending on the minerals mixed in it), the white magnesite is something else. It might remind you of turquoise, only whitened, but this stone stands on its own. It’s mined from a number of locations, some of which are in Brazil, Italy, and Austria.
Wearing white magnesite jewelry might help you with: relaxing the mind, creative visualization, developing mental clarity, increasing your self-esteem, and it can also help you during meditation.
White buffalo turquoise is one of the rarer stones. Clear white with some dark veining, it looks as if clouds have suddenly appeared in the night sky. What makes this stone extremely rare, coveted and unique is that it’s found in only one mine in the world – Dry Creek Mine on the Shoshone Reservation, Nevada. This means that if you want something precious, rare, and jaw-droppingly beautiful, Pink Camel’s Native American white buffalo turquoise jewelry is a perfect choice.
Like turquoise, wearing white buffalo turquoise jewelry might help you with: healing, protection, dispersing negative energy, and clearing your thoughts.