Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal making it the hardest silicate

making it the hardest silicate mineral

all organic parts are replaced by minerals

including Moonstone

Topaz occurs in a wide range of natural colors

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

Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal making it the hardest silicateStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.