Prehnite Natural 8mm Bicone Faceted - 15-16 Inch #0832 Red Garnet and Crystal Quartz

Red Garnet and Crystal Quartz

Red Botswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding

gray and peach

which occurs in many colors

as well as a prismatic quality that differentiates it from other varieties of Moonstone

Prehnite Natural 8mm Bicone Faceted - 15-16 Inch #0832 Red Garnet and Crystal QuartzPrehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer, Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn. Von Prehn discovered the stone in South Africa in 1774. Prehnite is translucent to transparent, in colors from light green to yellow green to olive, with occasional inclusions of Black Tourmaline that crisscross the stone in fibrous patterns. It is a phyllosilicate composed of silicon, calcium and aluminum with trace amounts of iron.