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WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH CRYSTALS? Very few mines in the world exist solely to produce crystals. The vast majority of what we consider to be healing crystals – tourmaline, quartz, citrine and amethyst, for example – are by-products from gold, cobalt and copper mines. If you wanted to name the world’s most ethical industries, industrial scale mining would probably not be high on your list. And indeed, there are a number of issues arising from the way our healing crystals make their way out of the ground and into our shops. SUSTAINABILITY Crystals, of whatever kind, are not a renewable resource – at least, not within any sensible time frame. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
