Blue Goldstone 8mm Round - 15-16 InchBlue Goldstone is an opaque, midnight blue glass with flecks of copper suspended within it. These flecks glitter as they catch the light and may appear white against the dark blue of the glass. 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.

” the other being Nephrite

According to Norse legend

most turquoise on the market is stabilized to improve durability

In this strand

First described in 1881

Iolite most commonly occurs in shades of blue to gray

It's a beautiful specimen

in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan

many mythical doctrines have stemmed from the story of this disappeared land mass

the colors are naturally occurring

Turquoise is formed when water passes through aluminous rock where copper and other minerals are present

this semi-precious variety of quartz is found in many locations around the world