Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Small It is opaque

It is opaque

and most commonly found with black inclusions

A cryptocrystalline Chalcedony

it offers a way to work a neutral color into your designs

Pink Tourmaline ranges in color from light pink to deep magenta

Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Small It is opaqueThe 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