Matte Larvikite 10mm Round Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Tourmaline Flash Sale translucent stone

translucent stone

African Jade is a complex Calcium Aluminum Silicate and is a Nephrite Jade

These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens

It is highly prized for its beautiful combinations of colors and for its opalescence — the pearly luster of the opaque stone

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Matte Larvikite 10mm Round Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Tourmaline Flash Sale translucent stoneThe 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