Mookaite 8mm Faceted Rondelle - 8-Inch R0852 Shears leave a clean

Shears leave a clean

leafy patterns

Like all Opals

laced with bands or swirls of brighter blue

control and orderliness

Mookaite 8mm Faceted Rondelle - 8-Inch R0852 Shears leave a cleanMookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Kennedy Ranges of Australia, the only region in the world where the stone is found. Mookaite is formed by the ancient skeletal remains of radiolaria, a microscopic protozoa with a silica shell, that were deposited in shallow sea beds. This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the