Mookaite 8mm Faceted Rondelle - 8-Inch DSPremier 5mm brass bicone bead

5mm brass bicone bead

Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history

It is often used in kiln furniture and foundry molds

worshipped by the Incas

brown and red bands of color allow the stone to be matched with many other gemstones in designs

Mookaite 8mm Faceted Rondelle - 8-Inch DSPremier 5mm brass bicone beadMookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Kennedy Ranges of Australia, the only region in the world where the stone is found. Mookaite is formed by the ancient skeletal remains of radiolaria, a microscopic protozoa with a silica shell, that were deposited in shallow sea beds. This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the