Gemstones
- Afghanite
- Agate
- Amazonite
- Amber
- Amethyst
- Ametrine
- Angelite
- Apatite
- Aquamarine
- Aragonite
- Auralite
- Aventurine
- Azurite
- Beryl
- Blood Stone
- Bronzite
- Calcite
- Carnelian
- Cat's Eye (Chrysoberyl)
- Celestite
- Chalcedony
- Charoite
- Chrome Diopside
- Chrysocolla
- Chrysoprase
- Citrine
- Coral
- Corundum
- Dumortierite
- Emerald
- Fluorite
- Garnet
- Goldstone
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Herkimer Diamond
- Howlite
- Hypersthene
- Indigo Gabbro
- Iolite
- Jade
- Jasper
- Jet
- K2
- Kunzite
- Kyanite
- Labradorite
- Lapis
- Larimar
- Larvikite
- Lava Rock
- Lepidolite
- Magnesite
- Malachite
- Mica
- Mixed Gemstones
- Moonstone
- Morganite
- Obsidian
- Onyx
- Opal
- Opalite
- Peridot
- Petrified Wood
- Phosphosiderite
- Pietersite
- Prehnite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- Rhodonite
- Rhyolite
- Ruby
- Ruby Zoisite
- Sapphire
- Sardonyx
- Selenite
- Seraphinite
- Shungite
- Silverite
- Sodalite
- Spinel
- Sunstone
- Tanzanite
- Thulite
- Tiffany Stone
- Tiger Eye
- Tiger Iron
- Topaz
- Tourmaline
- Turquoise
- Unakite
- Zircon
- Zoisite
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Phantom Quartz Polished 4mm Round
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$9.75Approximate beads per strand: 90 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz...$9.75 -
Lapis Natural Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Lapis lazuli, or just lapis, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized for thousands of years for its intense color. History: The first known mining...$14.50 -
Red Coral Polished 4mm Round
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$7.00Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Coral is one of few organic gems. It is the exoskeleton of small animals (coral) that create their branching homes from calcium carbonate dissolved in sea water. The colors of gem coral range from a pale...$7.00 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$27.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hubei Turquoise comes from the Hubei Mine in China. The gemstone is full of deep greens, dark blues and even yellows. The most prized color is dark blue with spider-webbing. History: Turquoise has been mined...$27.50 -
Ruby Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings...$21.50 -
Howlite Dyed Turquoise 4mm Round
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$6.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Howlite is a borate mineral, which occurs in Canada and parts of the USA. It forms as irregular nodules which can appear in the shape of a cauliflower head. Howlite is quite porous it can be dyed to imitate...$6.75 -
Silver Plated Hematite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$13.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hematite is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth's surface and in the shallow crust. It is an iron oxide with a chemical composition of Fe2O3. Hematite is found as a primary mineral and as an...$13.75 -
Natural Sponge Citrine Polished 4mm Round
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$8.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Citrine is a variety of quartz with colors ranging between pale yellow to brown due to ferric (salt) impurities. Visually, it is nearly impossible to differentiate between faceted citrine and yellow...$8.50 -
Kyanite Polished 4mm Round
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$36.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Kyanite is an aluminum silicate mineral, and often occurs as long, striated crystals that may be transparent or translucent with a pearlescent sheen. The most commonly found colors of kyanite are blue,...$36.50 -
Opalite Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$5.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Opalite is a man-made glass that resembles the mineral opal. Opalite predominantly consists of dolomite fused with metal. History: Since Opalite is a man-made gemstone, there is not as much...$5.50 -
Rose Quartz Polished 4mm Round
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$6.00Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz. Rose...$6.00 -
Ruby A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$69.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings...$69.50 -
Ruby Natural Polished 4mm Faceted Rondel
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$84.50Approximate beads per strand: 100 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings...$84.50 -
Ruby Natural Polished 4mm Round
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$29.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings...$29.50 -
Sapphire Polished 4mm Round
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sapphires are a variety of corundum with a Mohs hardness scale of 9. They come in many other colors, although red sapphires are actually called rubies. Sapphires are the birthstone for September...$26.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 4mm Round
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$45.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hubei Turquoise comes from the Hubei Mine in China. The gemstone is full of deep greens, dark blues and even yellows. The most prized color is dark blue with spider-webbing. History: Turquoise has been mined...$45.50 -
Larimar Polished 4mm Faceted Rondel
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$49.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Larimar is a rare variety of the silicate mineral, pectolite, residing solely in the Dominican Republic. It varies from white to deep blue. These stones were formed in cavities inside the limestone along the...$49.50 -
Natural Pink Opal Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica; its water content ranges from 3-21% by weight, but is usually between 6-10%. Depending on formation conditions, opal may be transparent, translucent, or opaque...$14.75 -
Peridot Polished 4mm Heishi
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 115 What is it: Peridot is a gemstone quality olivine. Peridot is the most well-known gem variety of the silicate mineral called Olivine. Peridot is one of the few gemstones to be found in a single color, while other...$22.50 -
Blue Topaz Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Topaz in its natural state is a golden brown to yellow and can often be mistaken as citrine, a less valuable gemstone. The density of topaz however, is heavier than citrine (about 25% more) and this...$26.50 -
Kingman Turquoise Stabilized Polished Blue 4mm Round - Arizona
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$115.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Kingman Turquoise Mine is one of the oldest and highest producing Turquoise Mines in America. It was originally discovered by Native Americans over a 1000 years ago. Kingman Turquoise is...$115.50 -
Citrine Polished 4mm Heishi
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 120 What is it: Citrine is a variety of quartz with colors ranging between pale yellow to brown due to ferric (salt) impurities. Visually, it is nearly impossible to differentiate between faceted citrine and yellow...$22.50 -
Kingman Turquoise Stabilized Polished 4mm Round - Arizona
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$84.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Kingman Turquoise Mine is one of the oldest and highest producing Turquoise Mines in America. It was originally discovered by Native Americans over a 1000 years ago. Kingman Turquoise is...$84.50 -
Howlite Dyed Red 4mm Faceted Round
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$9.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Howlite is a borate mineral, which occurs in Canada and parts of the USA. It forms as irregular nodules which can appear in the shape of a cauliflower head. Howlite is quite porous it can be dyed to imitate...$9.75 -
Natural Turquoise Polished 4mm Round Nugget
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$39.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Unlike American turquoise which is usually identified by the specific mine, Chinese turquoise has normally been referred to as Chinese turquoise, even though there are several different locations across China...$39.75 -
Green Aventurine Polished 4mm Round
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$8.00Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Aventurine is a gemstone variety of quartz prized for it's translucency and sparkly metallic inclusions. These inclusions are typically composed of muscovite mica, which usually results in medium to dark...$8.00 -
Goldstone Polished 4mm Round
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$4.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 Origin: Man Made What is it: Goldstone is a man made colored glass that contains highly reflective materials such as copper oxide (in red/orange gold stone). The reflective inclusions have a bright metallic luster. This...$4.75 -
Red Tourmaline Polished 4-6mm Chips
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$9.95Approximate beads per strand: 130 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$9.95 -
Hematite A Grade Polished 4mm Round
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$3.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hematite is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth's surface and in the shallow crust. It is an iron oxide with a chemical composition of Fe2O3. Hematite is found as a primary mineral and as an...$3.50 -
Magnetic Hematite A Grade Polished 4mm Round
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$6.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hematite is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth's surface and in the shallow crust. It is an iron oxide with a chemical composition of Fe2O3. Hematite is found as a primary mineral and as an...$6.75 -
Lapis Natural Polished 4mm Round
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$11.00Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Lapis lazuli, or just lapis, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized for thousands of years for its intense color. History: The first known mining...$11.00 -
Elisa Turquoise Polished 4mm Cube - Mexico Stabilized
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$64.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Elisa Turquoise comes from the Elisa Mine in Sonora, Mexico. It is known for its beautiful sky blue color and many variations of blue and green. History: The Navajo tool, called a Hohokam hammer, (dating back...$64.50 -
Impression Jasper Polished Orange 3.5-4mm Round
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$8.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Jasper, is a type of quartz and / or chalcedony, which is opaque and usually red, yellow, brown, green, or blue. Patterns in this stone are created during the consolidation process forming flow and...$8.75 -
Smoky Quartz Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz. History:...$14.50 -
Black Spinel A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Spinel gets its name comes from the Latin word "spinella", which means spine, refering to its pointed crystals. It can be found in many different shades of pink, red, blue, yellow, green, brown, black,...$14.75 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Multi Color 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Pink 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Yellow 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Ivory 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Dark Peach 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Olive 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Clear 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Zircon AA Grade Polished Lilac 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Zircon, not to be confused with cubic zirconia, is a mineral that belongs to the group of nesosilicates. It is a zirconium silicate which appears a a dark brown, green or red color after extraction and...$13.50 -
Tiger Eye A Grade Polished Dyed Dark Blue 4mm Round
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$10.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tiger eye is a chatoyant (cats' eye effect) variety of microcystalline quartz. Tiger eye gets it's lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibers that...$10.50 -
Blue Lace Agate Matte 5-8mm Nugget
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$11.75Approximate beads per strand: 55 What is it: Agate is a variety of banded microcrystalline quartz, or chalcedony. There are a vast amount of varieties of agate. Usually, each variety is named after their physical characteristics or location of origin...$11.75 -
Amethyst Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$19.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO2) where the violet color is caused by irradiation or impurities of iron which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions. History: The name...$19.50 -
Ruby Polished 4mm Faceted Cube - Dark
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$29.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings. ...$29.50 -
Lapis Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Lapis lazuli, or just lapis, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized for thousands of years for its intense color. History: The first known mining...$26.50 -
Emerald Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$38.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Emerald is a gemstone and a variety beryl and is green because of trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vandium. History: The first known emerald mines were in Egypt around 330 BC. Cleopatra was...$38.50 -
Pink & Purple Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$21.50 -
Spinel Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$37.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Spinel gets its name comes from the Latin word "spinella", which means spine, refering to its pointed crystals. It can be found in many different shades of pink, red, blue, yellow, green, brown, black,...$37.50 -
Tanzanite AA Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$53.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tanzanite is a blue and violet gemstone only found in Tanzania, in a very small mining area near the Mirerani Hills. History: This gemstone was given the name "tanzanite" by Tiffany & Co. after Tanzania,...$53.50 -
Black Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$19.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$19.50 -
Sapphire Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$38.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sapphires are a variety of corundum with a Mohs hardness scale of 9. They come in many other colors, although red sapphires are actually called rubies. Sapphires are the birthstone for September. ...$38.50 -
Ruby Polished 4mm Faceted Cube - Light
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: A ruby is a pink to red colored gemstone, a variety of corundum. Ruby is the birthstone for July. Ruby is used in all forms of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings. ...$26.50 -
Tourmaline A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$37.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$37.50 -
Citrine & Apatite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Citrine is a variety of quartz with colors ranging between pale yellow to brown due to ferric (salt) impurities. Visually, it is nearly impossible to differentiate between faceted citrine and yellow...$21.50 -
Malachite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$33.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide and was one of the first ores used to create copper metal. Mohs Hardness is 3.5 to 4. History: When ground into a powder, malachite was a great green pigmented...$33.50 -
Prehnite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Prehnite occurs in the veins and cavities of volcanic rock. Prehnite is often cut and polished into cabochons, but highly transparent prehnite is quite often faceted. History: Prehnite was first was...$21.50 -
Purple Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$19.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$19.50 -
Orange Sunstone Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sunstone has an optical effect that is due to reflections from inclusions of red copper. These inclusions give the stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, hence sunstone is known...$22.50 -
Beryl / Morganite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities, which range from green, blue, yellow, white, and red (the rarest). There are many varieties of beryl, the well known ones are...$21.50 -
Ruby Zoisite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Ruby Zoisite is the natural combination of both ruby and zoisite crystals. It is also known as Anyolite, with the name coming from the Masai word for "green" anyoli. Ruby Zoisite can vary in color, pattern...$18.75 -
Kunzite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Kunzite is the best known as a variety of the mineral spodumene. Kunzite's color comes from trace amounts of manganese. This crystal is naturally: colorless, pink, lilac, yellow, and green. Be aware that all...$22.50 -
Pink Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$26.50 -
Blue Lace Agate Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Agate is a variety of banded microcrystalline quartz, or chalcedony. There are a vast amount of varieties of agate. Usually, each variety is named after their physical characteristics or location of origin...$22.50 -
Yellow Opal Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica; its water content ranges from 3-21% by weight, but is usually between 6-10%. Depending on formation conditions, opal may be transparent, translucent, or opaque...$22.50 -
Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$22.50 -
Champagne Garnet Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Garnet can be found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black and clear, with red shades being the most common. Garnet is the birth stone of January. The...$22.50 -
African Turquoise Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: African Turquoise is called Turquoise, although it is actually not turquoise. It is actually a form of jasper mined in Africa. This stone is a beautiful substitute for the more expensive traditional turquoise...$18.75 -
Blue Tourmaline Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$37.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$37.50 -
Aquamarine Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Aquamarine is a blue variety of beryl. It occurs in most sites which yield ordinary beryl. Well-known varieties of beryl are emeralds and aquamarine. Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by...$26.50 -
Fluorite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Pure fluorite is transparent, both in visible and ultraviolet light, but it is the presence of impurities which make it a colorful mineral. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in...$18.75 -
Chrysocolla / Azurite Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$15.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Chrysocolla is a copper stone, ranging from light green to deep blue, and is often found containing Malachite and Azurite. Some even containing Cuprite. As it is slightly more common than turquoise,...$15.50 -
Iolite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Iolite is a transparent to translucent form of Cordierite and is a light to deep blue color, and usually includes a purplish tinge. Iolite is one of few gemstones that has pleochroism, which is an optical...$22.50 -
Amazonite Brazil Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Amazonite is also known as the Amazon Stone. It is a light green to light bluish-green color gemstone, with a soft color that can closely resemble Jade. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as 'Colorado...$22.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$32.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hubei Turquoise comes from the Hubei Mine in China. The gemstone is full of deep greens, dark blues and even yellows. The most prized color is dark blue with spider-webbing. History: Turquoise has been mined...$32.50 -
Rhodochrosite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 Origin: Peru What is it: Rhodochrosite occurs as a hydrothermal vein along with other manganese minerals in low temperature ore deposits as in silver mines. Mohs hardess of 3.5 to 4. For being a softer stone, it is very...$26.50 -
Moonstone and Sunstone Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 Moonstone What is it: Moonstone is a variety of the feldspar family. During formation, minerals separate into alternating layers. When light shines between these thin layers it is scattered producing the phenomenon...$21.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Hubei Turquoise comes from the Hubei Mine in China. The gemstone is full of deep greens, dark blues and even yellows. The most prized color is dark blue with spider-webbing. History: Turquoise has been mined...$17.50 -
Quartz Dyed Blue, Green, Yellow Banded 4mm Faceted Round
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Now: $6.75Was: $13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz. ...Now: $6.75Was: $13.50 -
Rutilated Quartz Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz. ...$13.50 -
Rainbow Sapphire Banded Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$29.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sapphires are a variety of corundum with a Mohs hardness scale of 9. They come in many other colors, although red sapphires are actually called rubies. Sapphires are the birthstone for September. ...$29.50 -
Dyed Jade Red Polished 4mm Round
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$4.95Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Jade is a variety of the calcium, magnesium, and iron-rich minerals. There are two different mineral species of Jade: Jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite contains blacks, reds, pinks, and violets. While nephrite...$4.95 -
Amazonite Brazil A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$11.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Amazonite is also known as the Amazon Stone. It is a light green to light bluish-green color gemstone, with a soft color that can closely resemble Jade. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as 'Colorado...$11.75 -
Pink Opal Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica; its water content ranges from 3-21% by weight, but is usually between 6-10%. Depending on formation conditions, opal may be transparent, translucent, or opaque...$14.75 -
Sunstone Polished 4mm Faceted Round - Light
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$11.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sunstone has an optical effect that is due to reflections from inclusions of red copper. These inclusions give the stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, hence sunstone is known...$11.50 -
Pink Tourmaline A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$15.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Tourmaline is part of a large group of boron silicate minerals with a wide range of colors. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5. History: In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador of Brazil, washed the dirt from a...$15.50 -
Beryl / Morganite Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$15.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Pure beryl is colorless, but it is frequently tinted by impurities, which range from green, blue, yellow, white, and red (the rarest). There are many varieties of beryl, the well known ones are...$15.75 -
Green Apatite A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$15.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals that are occasionally found to contain significant amounts of rare earth elements and can be used as an ore for those metals. Transparent Apatite are sometimes...$15.50 -
Kunzite Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$11.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Kunzite is the best known as a variety of the mineral spodumene. Kunzite's color comes from trace amounts of manganese. This crystal is naturally: colorless, pink, lilac, yellow, and green. Be aware that all...$11.50 -
Chalcedony Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Most chalcedony is a mixture of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz and morganite (some are free of moganite). The colors of chalcedony are a result of metallic impurities such as iron, nickel,...$14.50 -
Blue Apatite Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$13.75Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals that are occasionally found to contain significant amounts of rare earth elements and can be used as an ore for those metals. Transparent Apatite are sometimes...$13.75 -
Rose Quartz A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$9.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Quartz is a common variety of silicon dioxide that often crystallizes into well-formed hexagonal prisms. It occurs in many colors, including purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smokey quartz. Rose...$9.50 -
Sapphire Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$25.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Sapphires are a variety of corundum with a Mohs hardness scale of 9. They come in many other colors, although red sapphires are actually called rubies. Sapphires are the birthstone for September. ...$25.50 -
Malachite Polished 4mm Faceted Coin
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide and was one of the first ores used to create copper metal. Mohs Hardness is 3.5 to 4. History: When ground into a powder, malachite was a great green pigmented...$18.50 -
Lepidolite A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Lepidolite is a rare lithium-rich mica gemstone that is usually pink, red, or purple in color. Most lepidolite is in this color range, however; can very rarely be colorless or yellow. Its Mohs Hardness is 2.5...$14.50 -
Malachite Polished 4mm Faceted Round
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide and was one of the first ores used to create copper metal. Mohs Hardness is 3.5 to 4. History: When ground into a powder, malachite was a great green pigmented...$18.50 -
Mashan Jade Dyed Royal Blue Polished 4mm Round
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$5.25Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Jade is a variety of the calcium, magnesium, and iron-rich minerals. There are two different mineral species of Jade: Jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite contains blacks, reds, pinks, and violets. While nephrite...$5.25 -
Amethyst A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO2) where the violet color is caused by irradiation or impurities of iron which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions. History: The name...$24.50