Butter Jade

Butter Jade is a wonderful creamy white color gemstone with fine parallel lines of dark nuances, some dark green, some grey that give a distinctive look to the stone. Butter Jade stone has a hardness between 6 and 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.

Green Opal

Reminding us of the ever-changing color of the Black Sea, Green Opal is a type of stone that can be polished to a high finish obtaining a beautiful and fine texture. Sometimes the stone has small brown dots that interrupt in a pleasant way the predominant green.

The stone is mined in Chiweshe area, north of Harare and on Mohs Hardness Scale its hardness is rated between 5 and 6.

Cobalt

With a hardness between 5 and 6 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, Cobalt is a dark purple color stone often with yellow or green striations or some spots throughout that is mined in northern Zimbabwe, in the Chiweshe area, north of Harare.

Verdite / Green Verdite

Sometimes light, sometimes dark, golden, brown or green, Verdite is a uniquely beautiful and rare stone that is said to be three and a half million years old. As beautiful as this stone is, as challenging the act of creation is since the stone contains ruby Corundum which is a hard mineral, the second hardest mineral on earth next to diamond, between 7 and 9 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Verdite is found only in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Fruit Serpentine

Fruit Serpentine is a dark multicolored stone that may look black in places, with insertions of dark purple, green or brown. The stone is a type of Zimbabwean Serpentine that comes from Kwekwe area, south west of Harare and on the Mohs Hardness Scale it's rated between 4 and 5.

Leopard Stone

Leopard Stone is a very hard and rare variety of serpentine stone found only in the smaller mines in eastern Zimbabwe. It is named for its black spots on a bright and lime green background. Zimbabwe is the only place in the world where you can find Leopard Stone. It is a very difficult stone to carve and only the most skilled sculptors will attempt it. Leopard Stone has a hardness between 6 and 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.