Quality Fabulous Natural Glistening Sunstone Round Bead- 16mm - 4 Pieces - 1571A

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Quality Fabulous Natural Glistening Sunstone Round Bead- 16mm - 4 Pieces - 1571A:
$10.99

~~~ Natural Glistening Sunstone Round Bead ~~~

approx. size : 15.9~16.2mm

approx. total weight :22 grams =110 carats

*every beaddoes exhibit glistening sparkles if you turn it around ...

4beads, center drilled

Listing is for the exact4 beads as pictured.

Color of gemstone may vary slightly from screen to screen.

~~~ This captivating stone has another name - Heliolite, from the Greek \"helios\" meaning \"sun\" and \"lithos\" meaning \"stone\". It is a hard stone registering 7 on the Mohs scale which is right up there with quartz. Its luster is vitreous (glassy) to dull, and its streak is white. It is often found in hues of orange, peach, yellowish brown, and sometimes green or gray, but each with areas of iridescent salmon-colored schiller. This sparkle and lustrous shimmer, though revered by the ancients as a captured and imprisoned piece of the sun itself, is actually caused by the refraction of minute and very thin platelets of Hematite or Goethite inclusions.

Favorite location that host an abundance of this type of glistening Sunstone are India, Norway, Russia and the U.S. (New York, Pennsylvania, North