About me

I’m a high school student with a deep love for minerals, gemstones, and the quiet stories held within every stone.

My fascination began with jadeite. What started as simple admiration for its rich green color and smooth, polished texture grew into a broader curiosity about the science behind stones: what gives each mineral its unique hue, how crystals form deep within the earth, and why different rocks take on such distinct structures and properties. Over time, I found myself drawn not just to finished gemstones, but to raw specimens, mineral formations, and the slow, grand geological processes that shape them over thousands and millions of years. To me, every stone is a small record of the planet’s history.

That curiosity reaches beyond chemistry and geology. I love learning about how human cultures around the world have valued, shaped, and found meaning in stones across history—how they have served as symbols of status, spirituality, protection, and heritage, and how different societies have built traditions around the same minerals. More recently, I’ve also become interested in the environmental impacts of gem and mineral mining, and in thinking about how we can engage with these natural materials more thoughtfully.

I built this website as a place to share what I’ve learned and what I continue to discover. It is both a personal guide to minerals and gemstones, and a notebook of my thoughts on earth science, culture, and the environment. My hope is simple: that anyone who visits might see stones not just as beautiful objects, but as small, tangible connections to the planet, to history, and to the living world around us.

Going forward, I hope to keep exploring earth science and deepen my understanding of the natural world one stone at a time.