Peruvian Unakite

About Peruvian Unakite
Unakite is a metamorphic rock that is altered granite composed of pink orthoclase feldspar, green epidote, and quartz.
Unakite can be found as pebbles and cobbles from glacial drift all across the US Midwest. It also occurs in Virginia where it is found in the river valleys after being washed down from the Blue Ridge Mountains. First found in the United States, Unakite has a worldwide distribution, having also been reported in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Brazil, China, India, and Australia.
Gemrock offers you top-quality Unakite crystal products, hand-made by our in-house master carvers.
Gemrocks Unakite products are ethical crystals. We control the entire production chain from the legal rough rock provider to your doorstep. Our in-house carvers are hired under long-term stable labor contracts with all required labor benefits, bonuses, and profit participation as well as higher-than-average more-than-fair salaries.
Gemrock saves water, and energy, recycles, and offers you globally unique carbon neutral crystals.
How Peruvian Unakite is different

Unakite from USA
Is a mix of Epidote (green), pink orthoclase, and clear quartz.

Peruvian Unakite
Very similar to Unakite from the USA. The most important difference is that in Peru the quartz part is milky quartz, not clear quartz.

South African Unakite
Southafrican Unakite displays a very different fibrous looking color pattern.

Chinese Unakite
Chinese Unakite has a color pattern that is not adequate for high-quality crystal products. It has an ugly washy look with lots of brown tones and very weak reds and greens.
Top-quality Premium-cut Unakite Cabochons
Only our most experienced master carvers take part in Gemrocks´ cabochon and jewelry production. Indeed, it takes many months of training to be able to produce a flawless premium-cut cabochon.
Additionally, our raw material quality standards are probably the world’s highest. As a result, only about 25 % of the rough rock coming from the mine is considered jewelry-grade.
Check our professional Unakite Gemstone Quality Standard and avoid wasting your money on low-grade material.
Contact us for custom production of your cabochon and jewelry designs.
If you are a jewelry maker looking for top-quality cabochons, check out our stock:
Top-quality Unakite Jewelry
As of 2025 Gemrock in cooperation with our associated gold- and silversmith Herdel SAC offers you a huge variety of top-quality crystal jewelry in gold and silver.
Apart from our designs, we offer personalized custom jewelry production for everyone (shops and retail clients). Contact us:





Why Gemrock Unakite Crystal Products are truly ethical:
Founded in 2017 by biologist and professional nature conservationist Stefan Austermühle, Gemrock was born to be more than just a crystal wholesale business. As a result, Nature conservation and ethical workers’ treatment throughout the entire production chain are at the core of our business. We are changing the crystal industry for the better one crystal at a time.
- We do not source our raw materials from conflict areas, from mines that employ children, from drug production areas, or mining that finances genocide and civil war.
- All our gemstones, silver, and gold come from legal sources. We do not support illegal mining or shadow business.
- Our entire production (crystal carving, silver and goldsmithing, as well as jewelry production is in-house. We control 100% of the production chain.
- Gemrock employees are paid fair salaries higher than the industry average. They are hired under legal labor contracts with all legally required labor benefits. Excellent work is motivated with bonuses and our employees get a share of the company’s annual profits.
- Hiring is independent of any non-work related factors (gender, skin color, nationality, or else). Only knowledge and labor quality do matter.
- We offer our employees safe labor conditions.
- Saving water and energy, and re-using and recycling materials to the maximum is an ongoing effort.
- We constantly measure our carbon footprint and neutralize our climate impact by financing a tree-planting project.
The maximum possible transparency is Gemrocks’ most important communication rule. You can find ample information about our ethical business in our blog (on this website) and on all of our social networks. For more details on our ethical standards, read here:
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