Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Pink (Synthetic) 6X10mm Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn

Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn

known as "azure

Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an

Famous malachite mines in the Ural mountains of Russia once produced 20 to ton blocks of the stone

but a form of natural Serpentine which is commonly referred to as Yellow Jade in the stone industry

Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Pink (Synthetic) 6X10mm Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von PrehnThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar