Prehnite Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:8 mm It began as another mineral

It began as another mineral entirely - crocidolite

not burn through

Yemen carries one of the world's deepest frankincense heritages - the ancient Sabaean and Hadhramauti kingdoms built their wealth on this resin from the second millennium BCE onward

Priced near gem level in nineteenth-century Europe until the Northern Cape deposits made it an everyday stone - the supply changed

Rose quartz - soft clouded pink

Prehnite Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:8 mm It began as another mineralPrehnite a translucent green gold lit from within like sea glass, and the first mineral in history named after a person. Named in 1788 for the colonel who carried it to Europe. Strung on elastic cord. It forms in the gas cavities of volcanic basalt, in rounded grape like crusts, and its character is translucency light enters the stone and scatters, giving the clouded glow collectors have always prized. Pale celadon, sometimes warming to yellow green.