Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch featured_04162026 It occurs in bright turquoise

It occurs in bright turquoise blues and darker blues as well as rust reds

crystallized and infused in Quartz

Goldstone is a manmade material

with little alteration of the external shape of the original crystal

Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch featured_04162026 It occurs in bright turquoiseThe 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