Goldstone 8mm Round Large Hole 8-Inch Large Hole Its needle to like inclusions

Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red

a silicate of calcium and magnesium -- from western Canada

Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer

typically of brown or black

Yellow Opal is transparent to opaque

Goldstone 8mm Round Large Hole 8-Inch Large Hole Its needle to like inclusionsGoldstone is a manmade material, consisting of opaque rust to red glass with tiny flecks of glittering copper suspended within it. Goldstone was first created during the Italian Renaissance when, as legend has it, a Venetian monk tipped molten copper into a vat of molten glass. When this combination crystallized, the result was glass permeated with thousands of tiny metallic sparkles.