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Gemstones

Gemstones

Gemstones

  • Sodalite Polished 5-8mm Chips Sodalite Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Sodalite Polished 5-8mm Chips

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    $6,718.13
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 What is it: Sodalite is a light, hard, yet fragile mineral. It is named because of it's high sodium content. Blue sodalite is the most popular, but it can also be grey, yellow, green, or pink. Although somewhat similar...
    $6,718.13
  • Tourmaline A Grade Polished 4-7mm Chips Tourmaline A Grade Polished 4-7mm Chips

    Tourmaline A Grade Polished 4-7mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,733.56
    Approximate beads per strand: 120 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...
    $8,733.56
  • Chrysoprase Australian Polished 5-8mm Chips Chrysoprase Australian Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Chrysoprase Australian Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $11,420.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 230 What is it: Chrysoprase, chrysophrase, or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains a small amount of nickel, which gives the gemstone it's unique color. Its...
    $11,420.81
  • Red Tourmaline Polished 4-6mm Chips Red Tourmaline Polished 4-6mm Chips

    Red Tourmaline Polished 4-6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,912.71
    Approximate 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...
    $8,912.71
  • Malachite Polished 5-8mm Chips Malachite Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Malachite Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 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...
    $10,525.06
  • Larimar Polished 5-8mm Chips Larimar Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Larimar Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $11,196.88
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 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...
    $11,196.88
  • Pink Opal Polished 5-8mm Chips Pink Opal Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Pink Opal Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,733.56
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 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...
    $8,733.56
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    Tourmaline Polished 3-9mm Flat Chips - 6.75" Strand

    Tourmaline Polished 3-9mm Flat Chips - 6.75" Strand

    Bead World Gems

    $4,926.63
    Approximate beads per strand: 50 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...
  • Campitos Turquoise Polished 3-4mm Chips Campitos Turquoise Polished 3-4mm Chips

    Campitos Turquoise Polished 3-4mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $53,297.13
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 What is it: Campitos Turquoise comes from the Campitos Mine in 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...
    $53,297.13
  • Ametrine Polished 4x12-5x20mm Long Chips Ametrine Polished 4x12-5x20mm Long Chips

    Ametrine Polished 4x12-5x20mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 What is it: Ametrine is a quartz crystal that displays a combination of amethyst and citrine. Ametrine is mainly sourced from a single site in Bolivia, called the Anahi Mine. History: Rumor has it that a Spanish...
    $10,525.06
  • Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-6mm Chips Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-6mm Chips

    Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $29,111.88
    Approximate beads per strand: 115 What is it: Campitos Turquoise comes from the Campitos Mine in 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...
    $29,111.88
  • Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-8mm Chips Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-8mm Chips

    Campitos Turquoise Polished 4-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $47,922.63
    Approximate beads per strand: 100 What is it: Campitos Turquoise comes from the Campitos Mine in 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...
    $47,922.63
  • Amethyst Polished 3-5mm Chips Amethyst Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Amethyst Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $9,405.38
    Approximate beads per strand: 250 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...
    $9,405.38
  • Carnelian Polished 5-10mm Chips Carnelian Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Carnelian Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,837.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 200 What is it: Carnelian is in the chalcedony family, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between other chalcedony gemstones. Sard, which is a brown-red translucent form of Chalcedony, can also be used to identify the...
    $7,837.81
  • Aquamarine Polished 5-10mm Chips Aquamarine Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Aquamarine Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $11,420.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 200 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...
    $11,420.81
  • Crystal Quartz Polished 5-10mm Chips Crystal Quartz Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Crystal Quartz Polished 5-10mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,837.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 200 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. Colorless,...
    $7,837.81
  • Natural Amber Rough 20-25mm Chips Natural Amber Rough 20-25mm Chips

    Natural Amber Rough 20-25mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $33,590.63
    Approximate beads per strand: 45 What is it: Amber is fossilized tree resin. Amber is created from high pressures and temperatures produced by overlying sediment. First, the resin forms into copal (the intermediate state of amber, it is non fossilized...
    $33,590.63
  • Lapis Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Lapis Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Lapis Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...
    $10,525.06
  • Tiger Eye Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Tiger Eye Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Tiger Eye Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $9,629.31
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...
    $9,629.31
  • Blue Goldstone Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Blue Goldstone Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Blue Goldstone Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $9,405.38
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...
    $9,405.38
  • Black Onyx Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Black Onyx Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Black Onyx Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 What is it: Onyx, as well as agate are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from...
    $10,525.06
  • Carnelian Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Carnelian Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Carnelian Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 What is it: Carnelian is in the chalcedony family, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between other chalcedony gemstones. Sard, which is a brown-red translucent form of Chalcedony, can also be used to identify the...
    $10,525.06
  • Crystal Quartz Polished 6x18mm Long Chips Crystal Quartz Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Crystal Quartz Polished 6x18mm Long Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $10,525.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 65 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. Colorless,...
    $10,525.06
  • Fancy Jasper Polished 5-8mm Chips Fancy Jasper Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Fancy Jasper Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,613.88
    Approximate beads per strand: 140 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...
    $7,613.88
  • Amethyst Polished 5x8mm Chips Amethyst Polished 5x8mm Chips

    Amethyst Polished 5x8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,061.75
    Approximate beads per strand: 140 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...
    $8,061.75
  • Ametrine Polished 6-11mm Chips Ametrine Polished 6-11mm Chips

    Ametrine Polished 6-11mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,837.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 90 What is it: Ametrine is a quartz crystal that displays a combination of amethyst and citrine. Ametrine is mainly sourced from a single site in Bolivia, called the Anahi Mine. History: Rumor has it that a Spanish...
    $7,837.81
  • Citrine Polished 5-8mm Chips Citrine Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Citrine Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,733.56
    Approximate beads per strand: 140 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...
    $8,733.56
  • Red Coral Dyed 5-10mm Chips

    Red Coral Dyed 5-10mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $6,718.13
    Approximate beads per strand: 240 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...
    $6,718.13
  • Lapis Polished 5-9mm Chips

    Lapis Polished 5-9mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,285.69
    Approximate beads per strand: 90 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...
    $8,285.69
  • Peach Moonstone Polished 3-6mm Chips

    Peach Moonstone Polished 3-6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $6,225.46
    Approximate beads per strand: 120 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 called...
    $6,225.46
  • Red Coral Dyed Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Red Coral Dyed Polished 5-8mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $6,046.31
    Approximate beads per strand: 120 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...
    $6,046.31
  • Natural Citrine Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Natural Citrine Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,837.81
    Approximate 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...
    $7,837.81
  • Garnet Polished A Grade 3-5mm Chips

    Garnet Polished A Grade 3-5mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,837.81
    Approximate beads per strand: 150 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...
    $7,837.81
  • Moonstone Polished A Grade 3x5mm Chips

    Moonstone Polished A Grade 3x5mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $9,405.38
    Approximate beads per strand: 150 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 called...
    $9,405.38
  • Labradorite Polished A Grade 3-4mm Chips

    Labradorite Polished A Grade 3-4mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,912.71
    Approximate beads per strand: 150 What is it: Labradorite exhibit iridescent blue, green, red, orange, and yellow colors. Labradorite is so well known for these spectacular displays of color that the phenomenon is known as "labradorescence."...
    $8,912.71
  • Larimar Polished 8-16mm Chips

    Larimar Polished 8-16mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $17,691.06
    Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...
    $17,691.06
  • Natural Amber Polished 2x6mm Chips

    Natural Amber Polished 2x6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $12,092.63
    Approximate beads per strand: 150 What is it: Amber is fossilized tree resin. Amber is created from high pressures and temperatures produced by overlying sediment. First, the resin forms into copal (the intermediate state of amber, it is non fossilized...
    $12,092.63
  • Chrome Diopside Polished 6-12mm Chips

    Chrome Diopside Polished 6-12mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $21,050.13
    Approximate beads per strand: 55 What is it: Chrome diopside is a transparent to translucent variety of gemstone containing calcium magnesium silicate. It is of the rarer varieties of diopside and belongs to the pyroxene family of minerals. Chrome...
    $21,050.13
  • Rhodochrosite Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Rhodochrosite Polished 3-5mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,912.71
    Approximate beads per strand: 110 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 difficult to...
    $8,912.71
  • Garnet Polished 4x6mm Chips Garnet Polished 4x6mm Chips

    Garnet Polished 4x6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $7,613.88
    Approximate beads per strand: 190 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...
    $7,613.88
  • Black Tourmaline Polished 3-6mm Chips

    Black Tourmaline Polished 3-6mm Chips

    Bead World Gems

    $8,509.63
    Approximate beads per strand: 120 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...
    $8,509.63