Brandberg Enhydro with Prehnite: Ethically Hand-Mined Large Quartz Crystal

Ethically hand-mined Brandberg Quartz

100mm ~ 4" ~ 282 grams

This large Brandberg enhydro has at least 3 small moving bubbles. Two are marked in the images. The third is almost in the middle, with excellent movement - around 15mm. This is not easy to find (the first time), but if you tilt gently from side to side, your eye will be drawn to the movement. The prehnite patch has oxidised (Golden Healer), which is why it looks more golden than prehnite's pale green.

Single Brandberg points over a quarter of a kilo are rare.

“Prehnite can be used to multiply energy and to enhance one's protective fields. Prehnite is a stone for “dreaming and remembering. It also advances the state of meditation and furthers the avenues available during the unencumbered state." Melody, Love is in the Earth.

The Herero people named Brandberg, Omukuruvaro, 'Mountain of the Gods'. These sacred mountains have yielded the most beautiful, high-frequency healing crystals ever discovered.

Kacha Stones is the original ethically mined crystal shop, trading since 1996. Ethical sourcing is important not only for the environment and mining communities but also for preserving the crystal's energy. Blasting a hole in the earth and collecting the remains does not produce the best crystals.

Nearly all crystal shops use 'ethically mined', but you only know where and how it was mined if you buy from the miners. For 30 years, we have worked directly with miners from the icy slopes of the Himalayas to the arid deserts of Namibia.