Charoite 8mm Round - 15-16 InchCharoite is a stone that naturally occurs in intense purple hues, as well as grays, browns, greenish yellows, white and black. These colors swirl throughout the stone in fascinating matrices of color. Originally discovered in the 1940s and not introduced commercially until 1978, it is a relative newcomer to the gem market. The name is derived from the Charo River in eastern Siberia, Russia, the only site where it can be found.

Yellow Opal is transparent to opaque

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

Fluorite is a luminous

Onyx has been both revered and feared throughout history

It is found only in a four square mile area in a remote mountain range of Chihuahua

Sonora Jasper is the trade name for Sonora Dendritic

everything from colorless to black

especially in Asian cultures

Its inclusions of red

Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an all to seeing

This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the minerals that give Mookaite its distinctive colors

all to knowing eye