Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal all organic parts are replaced

all organic parts are replaced by minerals

including Moonstone

Viking explorers used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing lens to help them determine the exact location of the sun for navigation

Bird’s Eye Rhyolite is named for its circular color formations of deep reds

Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal all organic parts are replacedStrawberry 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.