Chalcedony 8x16-12x22mm Tear Drop Beads - 15-16 Inch hps_05142026 Tourmaline naturally occurs in a

Tourmaline naturally occurs in a full color spectrum and is used as both a trade name and as a gemological name for a group of minerals of varying species Different forms of tourmaline may carry different metaphysical properties

or some degree of pink in between

a type of reversible photochromism

The quality and transparency of the Quartz almost makes the red spots (caused by iron and hematite) look suspended in time

Originally discovered in the 1940’s and not introduced commercially until 1978

Chalcedony 8x16-12x22mm Tear Drop Beads - 15-16 Inch hps_05142026 Tourmaline naturally occurs in aBlue Chalcedony is a naturally occurring soft blue translucent stone. It is a member of the Quartz family, a form of silica with a cryptocrystalline structure that incorporates Moganite along with the Quartz. Known in antiquity as the Speakers Stone, it is believed to have been worn Cicero, the great Roman orator.