Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch featured_04162026 a Greek philosopher and botanist

a Greek philosopher and botanist who also named the stone

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Shattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral

Goldstone is a manmade material

It has been prized both as an ornamental jewel and for its strong curative powers and protective energies

Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch featured_04162026 a Greek philosopher and botanistThe 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