Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch a grade a mineral of the Quartz

a mineral of the Quartz family

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" The "gift from the sun

meaning it forms by replacing another mineral’s crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure

Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch a grade a mineral of the QuartzThe 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