I had a reply from Crystalmaster Enquiry...

About the crystal, well, I'd have a reply from Crystal Enquirer, here it goes....

Hi,

Good to hear from you. This is a coated quartz. It is a natural clear quartz cluster that is coated in a very very thin coat of metal, this one is coated in titanium and niobium. For the properties look at quartz, titanium and niobium. These coated crystals (there are a whole range of them coated in various metals) are called aura quartz. This one in particular is called flame aura.Hope this helps.

Love and light
Tina

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Look what I'd found between a magazine?

It must have been over 20years hidden in an old fishing magazine as a bookmark.

Don't really know who put it in. It's time to do some spring cleaning and who knows what else I would find, a squashed gecko or mosquitoes fossil, guess they don't live that long like us.

Having here is a very good ol' looking old chinese coin set, and hey!, they have the year of the dynasty and some description on the rear. I can guarentee you these coins are 20 years old or more, but 100's of years, hmm... Perhaps they are too common in those days too.

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