About Coral  –

Coral is the hard skeleton built by tiny sea animals. It is polished into beads and cabochons in red, pink, orange and white.

It grows slowly in the sea as colonies of coral animals build calcium carbonate skeletons.

Care & Cleansing  +

Spotting a Fake  +

Cool Facts  –

Fossil coral is coral that has been replaced by silica over millions of years, preserving the flower-like polyp patterns.

Our coral is fossilised, not living reef coral.

Most fossil coral comes from Indonesia and the American Midwest.

Torre del Greco near Naples in Italy has been a centre for carving red coral for centuries.

The Science  +