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Dragon Blood Stone Tower

A polished dragon blood stone point, mottled green and deep red.

  • Natural green jasper, red iron inclusions
  • A recent trade name, not a traditional one
  • Hard and uncleaved, so it survives a knock
  • No two carry the same red

$14.90

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Light, but not full sun

The faces take the light one at a time, so a point on a shelf changes through the day. Keep it out of direct sun though: amethyst and rose quartz both fade.

Named, treatment and all

Undyed is written undyed. Where the colour comes from a metal coating, the page says so, because that is the part nobody else tells you.

No two points alike

Banding, colour zoning, a tip a degree off centre. That unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin, and it is why yours is yours.

Frequently asked questions

What is dragon blood stone?

A trade name for a green jasper with red inclusions - the red being iron oxide within the green matrix. It is sometimes sold as dragon blood jasper.

Where does the name come from?

From the appearance alone: red flecks across green, read as blood on scales. It is a marketing name of recent vintage, not a traditional one.

Is it durable?

Yes. Jasper is hard and has no cleavage planes, so it tolerates handling and knocks better than most display stones.

Why is every piece different?

The proportion of red to green varies through the deposit. No two cut pieces carry the same pattern, and the one you receive will not match the photograph exactly.

Cut from rough, not grown

A tower starts as a block of rough stone. It is sawn to a rough shape, ground to its faces, then polished by hand through finer and finer grits. The faces are never perfectly equal and the point is rarely perfectly centred - that unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin.

A polished amethyst point on linen, its hand-ground faces visibly unequal in width

What the colour is telling you

Some of these stones are exactly what they look like. Others are quartz with a metal coating applied under heat, which is where the iridescent blues and violets come from. Neither is a lesser stone, but only one of them is a natural colour, and we say which is which on every listing.

A natural amethyst point beside a quartz point with an iridescent metal coating, under the same light
Awaken Dragon Blood Stone Tower, view 4
Dragon Blood Stone Tower$14.90