Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Small milky white to pale yellow

milky white to pale yellow in color

It was originally found in the Ural mountains of Russia

A cryptocrystalline Chalcedony

Red Tiger Eye is actually Brown Tiger Eye which has been heat treated to bring out the red color

Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Small milky white to pale yellowThe 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