Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mine

originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mine in Afghanistan

including Moonstone

Chiastolite is also known as the Cross Stone for the cross matrices of browns

Topaz occurs in a wide range of natural colors

making it the hardest silicate mineral

Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mineStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.