A necklace of glittering copper-flecked glass—and an origin story with three competing claims.

Goldstone is not a mineral. It is glass into which metallic copper crystals were precipitated during a controlled cooling process—the copper suspension creates the characteristic warm glitter suspended in a dark amber-brown matrix. The earliest known example is a smooth goldstone amulet from Iran dated to the 12th or 13th century. The most cited origin narrative places its creation in Venice, where the glass-making family Miotti held an exclusive license from the Venetian government to produce it; the competing story, never verified, attributes it to a monk's accident. This faceted microbead necklace shows the copper sparkle at small scale, strung into a fine continuous strand.

Goldstone carries no metaphysical tradition as old as the natural stones it resembles, but it has accumulated its own craft associations over centuries of production. It is linked in contemporary practice to the root and sacral chakras and to vitality and creative energy.

A warm-toned necklace that catches candlelight and firelight particularly well—each microbead a faceted point of copper glitter.

Every crystal is hand-picked for exceptional beauty, quality and energetic integrity, then vortex-charged in Sedona’s sacred energy. This process infuses each piece with a high-frequency presence, delivering a crystal experience that feels as powerful as it looks.