r/Crystalsforbeginners

I'm recently into crafting, and I want to craft some moonstone bracelets because I LOVE LOVE LOVE them. However, I don't yet have the eye to know if they are good quality moonstones or not.

I bought this strand online, and I'm wondering what you think of the quality of these moonstones.
If they are of good quality I'm thinking of creating more to share with friends and family. What do you think ??

These photos were taken outside under sunlight on a very sunny day! Sometimes they seems to have good flash under some lighting but on other lights they seem quite white. Not sure if its because they are in the form of beads and it is inevitable (because I've only had moonstone rings before) or not.

For your reference the larger moonstones are 6mm round moonstones, and I bought them online for around 100 dollars for 60 stones.

The smaller ones I don't really remember, but I would like to know if the larger moonstones were worth the price!

The other beads are 925 Sterling silver and was made with elastic bands.

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Hi all, I’m new to rockhounding & crystals and super excited to explore the hobby! I went to Jade cove last weekend to hunt for some jade and found a bunch of cool looking specimens… to find out they were all serpentine! Thankfully a kind person at the beach showed me an example of the Jade and I was able to find 3 more pieces. I’m not great at figuring out what is what yet and seeing and feeling a real one is really helpful. I plan to hunt for some garnets and whatever other gemstone/crystal related rocks in my area soon and was looking to buy a few raw pieces online so I can have an example when I’m out and about. Do you guys have any recs where I buy a few pieces of real raw gemstones online? And hopfully not too expensive?

Right now I’m primary looking for garnets and I know not much else exists in California. But I’m always willing to travel outside my area to hunt for rocks in the future so some examples of aquamarine, emerald, amethyst etc would be cool to get too.