Maybe you’ve heard of Andara Crystals before. They’ve become popular in the metaphysical realm of crystals the last few years. According to one popular seller they are natural glass which “come from one of the Earth’s high-energy vortex sites in the High Sierra Nevadas of northern California, Lady Nellies Land.” There are a vast range of claims about Andara glass and the amazing things they can do.

One is that it contains something called “entherium,” containing 70 different minerals. This is complete nonsense. Entherium is completely made up and these pieces of glass do not have 70 minerals in them.

They also claim to be Monatomic - which means of one atom. Doesn’t make any sense in this s scenario.

I have read claims that Andara glass can aid in time and space travel, raise our vibrations, detox negativity, heal you, cleanse the chakras and it seems that there’s nothing these people WON’T say it can do! And they have price tags to match, with small pieces going for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Sorry folks but Andara glass, regardless of what the seller says, is slag glass. It is the garbage found at an old abandoned dumping ground of a glass factory. Several “healers” buy the slag glass and distribute it to each other, making up names and creating “certifications” for each other. It’s ALL a scam. People are paying thousands of dollars for beautiful, lovely garbage. And hey- they are pretty! But you can buy the same exact thing for almost nothing from honest slag glass sellers.

There is a thread about the Andara scam on Mindat (one of the most reputable sites and forums for those who are truly interested in learning about minerals - frequented by many true experts of mineralogy and geology!) and one entry is a woman that says she is the only one who has a certain color of the glass, called “King Solomon,” and found out one of her buyers was reselling her glass as Andara glass. The woman expressed that she was very angry that her material was being used to scam others. In the thread, they even name some of the people responsible for the whole scam.

It just so happens that ‘new’ color variations of Andara glass happen to be ‘found’ at the same times that glass companies start dumping those same new colors. Huh. I can see how one could easily believe in the story of Andara glass, because Obsidian exists, but with a bit of research the evidence stacks up ridiculously tall against it being anything but an elaborate scam. I hope that this can save someone from wasting a lot of their hard earned money on a piece of slag glass they could get elsewhere for a few bucks.

What other fakes, frauds or scams have you heard of??

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-Shawna