Black Spinel 10mm Natural Round - 15-16 InchSpinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide, and comes in a range of other colors, but those varieties are transparent. Black Spinel not only has the dark color, but it is opaque as well, rendering its black especially deep and mysterious. Sometimes called the "Black Prince's Ruby" for its role in the English crown. It has been mistaken for ruby and sapphire at times, but can be distinguished by its structure and its lower relative hardness.

calcium and aluminum with trace amounts of iron

Blood Quartz is a clear to milky to white silicon dioxide mineral

Kambaba Jasper is one of the more exotic Jaspers

” meaning “a stream of lava

chrysocolla

commonly with inclusions of copper in speckled patterns throughout the stone

as it is softer than both Jasper and Rhyolite

magnesium and other metals that give it its color

Sizes of rough cut specimens will vary in size

The stone was first discovered in Sweden in the 1830s

It is believed to hold earth and fire energies and to aid in remaining calm and grounded

known as "azure