Due to the rising popularity of healing crystals, there are those who are trying to make a business out of it by selling duplicate stones. These fake stones are almost similar in appearance to the real ones and are difficult to identify.

China is well known for its factories where they are producing fake crystals and passing them off as the real ones. If you stop buying crystals that originate from this country, it would increase your chances of getting a real crystal.

An important aspect while choosing a crystal is its colour and symmetry. If you find the colour of a crystal too good to be true, then it usually is. Crystals have beautiful colours no doubt but the fake ones are made shiny to appeal to the customers. Apart from this, if you find a crystal to be too symmetrical, then it is probably a fake one because the original crystals that are mined from the earth have a lot of imperfections in them.

The price of a crystal can sometimes be an indicator of its authenticity. Crystal mining is a very difficult process and requires a lot of machinery and labour, which in turn increases the price of these crystals. If you find a crystal that is sold at a cheap price, then it is probably a fake. Turquoise is a good example of a crystal that is found fake most of the time. Real turquoise is quite rare to find and is very expensive.

To identify a glass from Quartz, you need to look for air bubbles inside it because glass quartz will have them whereas real quartz won’t. Apart from this, glass quartz, when kept on a magazine, will magnify the letters which will tell you that it is a fake.

To identify dyed crystals, you can keep them outside your house in the open for a few days when it’s raining. The dyed crystals tend to lose their colour under the constant attack of raindrops on it whereas an original crystal doesn’t lose any colour.