Gemstones
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Afghanite
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Agate
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Amazonite
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Amber
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Amethyst
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Ametrine
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Angelite
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Apatite
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Aquamarine
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Aragonite
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Auralite
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Aventurine
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Azurite
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Beryl
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Blood Stone
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Bronzite
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Calcite
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Carnelian
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Cat's Eye (Chrysoberyl)
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Celestite
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Chalcedony
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Charoite
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Chrome Diopside
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Chrysocolla
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Chrysoprase
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Citrine
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Coral
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Corundum
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Dumortierite
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Emerald
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Fluorite
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Garnet
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Goldstone
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Hematite
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Hemimorphite
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Herkimer Diamond
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Howlite
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Hypersthene
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Indigo Gabbro
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Iolite
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Jade
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Jasper
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Jet
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K2
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Kunzite
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Kyanite
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Labradorite
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Lapis
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Larimar
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Larvikite
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Lava Rock
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Lepidolite
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Magnesite
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Malachite
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Mica
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Mixed Gemstones
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Moonstone
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Morganite
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Obsidian
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Onyx
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Opal
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Opalite
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Peridot
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Petrified Wood
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Phosphosiderite
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Pietersite
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Prehnite
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Pyrite
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Quartz
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Rhodochrosite
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Rhodonite
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Rhyolite
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Ruby
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Ruby Zoisite
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Sapphire
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Sardonyx
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Selenite
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Seraphinite
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Shungite
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Silverite
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Sodalite
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Spinel
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Sunstone
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Tanzanite
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Thulite
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Tiffany Stone
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Tiger Eye
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Tiger Iron
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Topaz
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Tourmaline
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Turquoise
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Unakite
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Zircon
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Zoisite
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Dyed Fuchsia Quartz 5mm Faceted Cube
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$16.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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. ...$16.50 -
Dyed Lilac Quartz 5mm Faceted Cube
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$16.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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. ...$16.50 -
Spotted Jasper Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$18.50 -
Dyed Aqua Quartz 5mm Faceted Cube
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$16.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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. ...$16.50 -
Tiger Eye Green / Gold Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$18.75 -
Crystal Quartz Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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,...$18.75 -
Citrine Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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 -
Rose Quartz Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$15.75Approximate 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. Rose...$15.75 -
Light Garnet Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 70 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...$17.50 -
Tiger Eye Dyed Multi Color Polished 4.5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$18.75 -
Tourmaline Polished Multi Color 5mm Faceted Cube
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$23.50Approximate 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...$23.50 -
Green Opal Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$17.50 -
Ruby Zoisite Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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 -
Apatite Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$18.75 -
Blue Tiger Eye Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$18.75 -
Black Tourmaline Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$17.50 -
Shungite Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 What is it: Shungite is a black, lustrous, non-crystalline mineral consisting of more than 98% carbon. History: Shungite is an ancient rock formation that's about 2 billion years old. It can only be found in the...$21.50 -
Pyrite Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$12.75Approximate beads per strand: 150 What is it: The mineral pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2. Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide minerals. Pyrite's metallic luster and...$12.75 -
Labradorite A Grade Polished 8mm Faceted Edge Cube
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$32.50Approximate beads per strand: 35 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."...$32.50 -
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 -
Rainbow Fluorite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube - Ombre
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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 -
Blue Sapphire A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$41.50Approximate 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. ...$41.50 -
Apatite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$23.50Approximate 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...$23.50 -
Hubei Turquoise A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$37.50Approximate 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...$37.50 -
Tiger Eye Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$15.75Approximate 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...$15.75 -
Natural Topaz Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate 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...$21.50 -
Carnelian A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 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...$17.50 -
Sunstone A Grade Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$23.50Approximate 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...$23.50 -
Rainbow Spinel Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$34.50Approximate 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,...$34.50 -
Rainbow Fluorite Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$13.75Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$13.75 -
Blue Sapphire A Grade Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$25.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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 -
Chalcedony Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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 -
Malachite Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$17.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$17.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 3mm Faceted Cube - Light
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$24.50Approximate beads per strand: 115 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...$24.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$19.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$19.50 -
Chrysoprase Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$18.50 -
Peridot Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$14.50 -
Chrome Diopside Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$24.50 -
Pyrite Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$12.75Approximate beads per strand: 115 What is it: The mineral pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2. Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide minerals. Pyrite's metallic luster and...$12.75 -
Smoky Quartz Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$14.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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 -
Rainbow Spinel Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$27.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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,...$27.50 -
Pink Tourmaline A Grade Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$18.50 -
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Garnet Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$13.50 -
Rose Quartz Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$13.50 -
Dark Garnet Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$23.50Approximate beads per strand: 70 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...$23.50 -
Aquamarine Polished Multi Color 4mm Faceted Cube
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$39.50Approximate 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...$39.50 -
Ruby & Sapphire Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$41.50Approximate 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. What...$41.50 -
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Rhodonite Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 40 What is it: Rhodonite is a rose pink to dark red gemstone with black inclusions. Rhodonite is found in Australia, Finland, Japan, Canada, Madagascar, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, Tanzania, and parts of the...$21.50 -
Lapis Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$31.50Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$31.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished Banded 4mm Faceted Cube
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$34.50Approximate 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...$34.50 -
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Chrysocolla Polished 6-7mm Faceted Cube
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$47.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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,...$47.50 -
African Turquoise 6mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$24.50 -
Pyrite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 What is it: The mineral pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2. Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide minerals. Pyrite's metallic luster and...$21.50 -
Labradorite Polished 10mm Faceted Cube
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$41.50Approximate beads per strand: 25 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."...$41.50 -
Amazonite Brazil Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$18.50 -
Amazonite Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$14.75Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$14.75 -
Yellow Opal Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$13.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$13.50 -
Kyanite Polished 4.5mm Faceted Cube
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$29.50Approximate beads per strand: 90 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,...$29.50 -
Black Spinel Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$13.75Approximate beads per strand: 125 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,...$13.75 -
Ruby Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$21.50Approximate beads per strand: 125 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 -
Botswana Agate Polished A Grade 6mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$26.50 -
Sunstone Polished 6mm Faceted Edge Cube
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$29.50Approximate beads per strand: 50 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...$29.50 -
Pink Opal 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$15.25Approximate beads per strand: 125 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...$15.25 -
Citrine Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$23.50Approximate beads per strand: 150 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...$23.50 -
Kyanite Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$27.50Approximate beads per strand: 150 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,...$27.50 -
Garnet Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$13.50Approximate 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...$13.50 -
Amazonite Polished 2.5mm Faceted Cube
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$18.50Approximate beads per strand: 150 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...$18.50 -
Rainbow Moonstone Polished 4.5mm Faceted Cube
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$16.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 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...$16.50 -
Rainbow Moonstone Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 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...$26.50 -
Aquamarine Polished A Grade 4mm Faceted Cube
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$28.50Approximate 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...$28.50 -
Ruby Polished 4.5-5mm Faceted Cube
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$44.50Approximate beads per strand: 50 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...$44.50 -
Emerald Polished 4mm Faceted Cube - Dark Green
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$48.50Approximate 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...$48.50 -
Citrine Polished A Grade 6mm Faceted Cube - Brazil
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$69.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$69.50 -
Emerald Polished 4.5-5mm Faceted Cube
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$64.50Approximate beads per strand: 85 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...$64.50 -
Natural Turquoise Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$38.50Approximate beads per strand: 150 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...$38.50 -
Emerald Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$78.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$78.50 -
Kyanite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$28.50Approximate beads per strand: 94 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,...$28.50 -
Beryl Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$26.50Approximate 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...$26.50 -
Beryl AAA Grade Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$57.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$57.50 -
Hubei Turquoise Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$43.50Approximate beads per strand: 70 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...$43.50 -
Chrysoprase Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$29.75Approximate beads per strand: 85 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...$29.75 -
Phosphosiderite Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$27.50Approximate beads per strand: 170 What is it: Phosphosiderite gets the first part of it's name from containing phosphorous, phospho, and iron, siderite. The second part of it's name comes from the word, "sideros" the Greek word meaning iron. History:...$27.50 -
Chrysocolla Polished 2mm Faceted Cube
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$54.50Approximate beads per strand: 180 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,...$54.50 -
Ombre Kyanite Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$64.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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,...$64.50 -
Labradorite Polished A Grade 4.5mm Faceted Cube
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$25.50Approximate beads per strand: 85 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."...$25.50 -
Apatite Polished 4mm Diagonal Drilled Faceted Cube
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$22.50Approximate 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...$22.50 -
Gold Plated Hematite Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$16.50Approximate beads per strand: 45 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...$16.50 -
Gold Plated Hematite Polished 6mm Faceted Cube
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$15.50Approximate beads per strand: 65 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...$15.50 -
Rose Quartz AA Grade Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate beads per strand: 45 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...$24.50 -
Carnelian Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$27.50Approximate beads per strand: 45 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...$27.50 -
Aquamarine A Grade Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$83.50Approximate beads per strand: 45 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...$83.50 -
Lapis AA Grade Polished 8mm Faceted Cube
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$59.50Approximate beads per strand: 45 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...$59.50 -
Amazonite Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$28.50Approximate 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...$28.50 -
Amethyst Polished 5mm Faceted Cube
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$16.75Approximate beads per strand: 75 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...$16.75 -
Peridot Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$41.50Approximate beads per strand: 95 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...$41.50 -
Hematite Matte 4mm Faceted Cube
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$8.50Approximate 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...$8.50 -
Emerald Polished 4mm Faceted Cube - Light Green
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$62.50Approximate 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...$62.50 -
Black Spinel Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$29.50Approximate 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,...$29.50 -
Tourmalated Quartz Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate 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. ...$24.50 -
Pink Opal Polished 4mm Faceted Cube
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$24.50Approximate 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...$24.50