Stefan Austermühle, CEO of Gemrock Peru Last Updated: 05/2025

I will reveal the Number 1 Secret Method to distinguish good from bad polish just by looking at a picture.

Sometimes a new client, who has not yet had a chance to hold a sphere, heart, or pyramid from Gemrock Peru in his hand, tells us that he would prefer to meet us at a gem show to be able to see the quality of our products firsthand.

When it comes to polish quality, however, recognizing top quality and distinguishing it from bad quality just by looking at a picture is surprisingly easy, if you know this ONE secret method that we will reveal to you NOW:

You have to focus on just one criterion.

Here is an easy tip:

The better the polish, the less diffuse the light reflections of lamps on the crystal surface.

Or say it the other way around:

The better the polis,h the sharper the borders of the light reflection.

Also:

The better the polish, the more details of the photographer’s environment are reflected like in a mirror on the surface of the crystal product: the photographer’s camera, hands, and even face, windows, furniture, or any other objects close to the crystal.

In the following, we have prepared some comparative examples. You will see examples of badly polished spheres that we have copied from the internet. And you will see typical Gemrock spheres and hearts with high-quality polish.

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Just one word of caution before you start:

Not all types of stone polish the same. Porous stones, for example, generally speaking, can’t be polished very well. One example is Peruvian Black Jade. Even if we have learned the trick and our black jade spheres are probably the best-polished ones in the market, a black jade sphere´s polish will never get to the incredible polish of a Red Aragonite sphere, a Huanucite Sphere, or a Caramel Calcite sphere.

Badly polished Angelite Sphere

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Additional Comment: The stronger blue in our sphere is NOT a result of photoshopping it. We actually do have a method of polishing that makes the natural color of many stones pop up a bit more. And it is not tainting them. Its the right way of polishing

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Badly polished Leopardite Sphere

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Badly polished Aragonite Sphere

Quality-polished Aragonite Sphere from Gemrock.

Badly polished Chrysocolla Sphere

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Terribly bad polished Pyrite Sphere

Quality-polished Pyrite heart from Gemrock.

Good quality polish in Pyrite produces a mirror-like metallic surface.

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