This stone is capable of the most amazing finish that shines to a black luster resembling the black opal. Not surprisingly, its extremely fine finish and excellent durability and hardness make it highly sought after. Springstone is an exceptionally hard, dark serpentine stone.

The name 'Serpentine' comes from the perceptible association between the intrinsic texture and patterns of the stone and the characteristics of a serpent's skin. The stone vaunts an array of colours and no two stones are exactly alike, each given a distinct appearance.

This gracefully simple stone resembles fine marble. Its faceted crystalline appearance affords the stone a distinctive sense of depth. It is generally pink or pinkishwhite in colour but may also be white, grey or even brown or black depending on whether iron and manganese are present minerals in it.

Soapstone holds a special place in Zimbabwean heritage as its national emblem is the soapstone carved, Zimbabwe bird. The famous soapstone bird carvings stood on walls and monoliths of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe built, it is believed, sometime between the 12th and 15th centuries.

A beautiful light greenish serpentine, Opal stone is a very hard stone finely textured with an almost translucent surface sometimes specked with red, orange and bluish dots and patches. Opalstone is famous for its milky light coloured greens and smooth texture. It is also unique in that it has fewer colour variations than Serpentine.

Cobalt is an exotic stone that imparts its beauty to the simplest and most unexpected forms. It is a serpentine variety and can be found in many colours although it is often purple with yellow and white striations throughout. Cobalt is the local name used by Zimbabwean sculptors.

A strikingly scarce variety of Serpentine stone, Leopard Rock is an exquisitely coloured stone with pock marks similar to a leopard, hence the name, of yellow and black. These are inclusions of the ferromagnesian mineral, olivine. Leopard Rock is an olivine rich serpentine (known geologically as dunite).

Butter Jade, also known as African Jade, is an ancient stone found in the greenstone belt of Southern Africa. This stone is typically around 50 million years old. It is often used to carve smooth polished sculptures that are left in the natural color of the Butter Jade stone.

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.