Angelite on eshop Katlas Beads , can you trust us?

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What Angelite beads can you find in our e-shop?

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A couple of months ago we immediately discontinued the alleged "green Angelite" after measuring it with a spectrometer because it was not Angelite at all. Without the spectrometer, we would not have detected this fraud from our "vetted supplier" who claimed to have confirmed everything with a Gemologist.

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Angelite that our wholesale customers asked us to identify

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A customer to use our spektometer to analyze some alleged angelite she bought from some other store. It turns out they were in fact just Chalcedony, and you could actually see where the dye had been pushed through the cracks in the stone. We are so glad  we bought a very sensitive spectrometer, because it makes it easy to spot fake Angelites.

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What did the spectrometer analysis reveal?

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Sample results from the spectrometer that clearly revealed fraudulent beads or terrible imitations. Knowing that Anhydrite is essentially a variety of gypsum and is merely "plaster", such beads are difficult to fake because it's a soft mineral. And gypsum would make the beads chip, break, and fly off in cracked pieces when cut. That's why mostly the harder mineral Chalcedony is used as an imitation od angelite. This is also why Chalcedony imitations are so cheap compared to real angelite.