Bloodstone Crystal Guide: meaning, origin & properties
Learn what Bloodstone is, where ours comes from, traditional associations across cultures, and how to identify a real specimen, in our complete Bloodstone Crystal Guide.
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Sourced through a regional cooperative or community-based workshop. Processing and economic benefit stay local, which means more of the value reaches the people doing the work.
Read our Sourcing Standards →These are AA-grade Bloodstone raw stones from Hhohho, Eswatini, sold by the piece or by the pound. Bloodstone, or heliotrope, is dark green chalcedony flecked with red spots of iron oxide. Each piece runs 1.50-2.50 inches at Mohs 6.5-7, fully natural and untreated. A favorite energy stone for desks and workspaces.
Bloodstone is a dark green chalcedony dotted with red iron oxide inclusions that look like drops of blood on moss. The name is old, and so is the stone's reputation as a working-person's talisman.
Sourced directly from Hhohho, Eswatini.
It is one of the oldest known gemstones, prized for centuries as a talisman of courage and vitality.
Bloodstone has long been used in practices around a quiet sense of renewal, a sense of groundedness when things feel uncertain, and staying connected to your body and the moment. It's traditionally linked to the root and heart chakras. If that resonates, set one on the floor near where you sit to read or work. There's no single right way to carry it.
These are traditional associations drawn from historical practice. This stone is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
A starting place for your own quiet practice.