Editor & Writer — The Stone Record

Sera Marden

Sera presents The Stone Record — the material-education programme from BE. Crystal Jewellery: what a stone is made of, what the documents behind it can support, and where the evidence stops.

Minerals over meanings. Records over appearances.

Portrait of Sera Marden
Writing

Published on the BE. Journal

IdentificationMoonstone vs Opalite: Don’t Buy the Wrong Glow
One is a feldspar with internal structure. One is glass with an even shimmer.→ BuyingAAA, AA, A Crystal Grading Explained
Nobody audits the letters. What a grade without a standard can and cannot tell you.→ CareCan I Wear Crystal Jewellery in the Shower?
A stone-by-stone answer — because “crystal” is not one material.→ ScienceSmoky Quartz: How Natural Radiation Creates the Brown
Colour centres, geological time, and why the tint is structural rather than applied.→ IdentificationGarnet vs Ruby: How to Tell Them Apart and Choose
Two red stones, one critical difference.→

Every entry links to the original article on thebeworld.com — nothing is republished here.

Full index
Latest notes

Material distinctions, kept brief

30 Sep 2026Price needs an object firstCrustal abundance describes a mineral; a price belongs to a rough fragment, a point, a cluster, a strand or a bracelet, each valued on its own measure.→ 30 Sep 2026One brown, four kinds of objectA brown list often mixes a mineral, a rock, a volcanic glass and a fossil resin; sorting starts with what light does inside the object.→ 30 Sep 2026The history was in the matrixThe evidence for how an Apache Tear formed sits in the perlite around it, which a polished or drilled nodule has usually lost.→ All notes
Method / Sources

How claims get checked

Every factual claim in The Stone Record traces to one of four places: peer-reviewed literature, reference material from gemmological institutes, public mineralogical databases, or supplier and lot documentation. Each source is only asked to prove what it can prove.

When something turns out to be wrong, it is corrected on the page and the correction is noted. No silent edits.

IDENTIFYVERIFYGRADERECORD
Sourcing paperwork is not a laboratory report — and the two are never blurred.
  • Peer-reviewed mineralogy & gemmology Literature
  • GIA · Gem-A reference material Institutes
  • Mindat locality & species records Database
  • Supplier & lot documentation BE. records