Chrysoprase Stone Beads | Smooth Oval | 14mm x 24mm Pendant nugget shaped beads

nugget shaped beads

Material: Blue Quartz Beads

Fashioned into faceted briolettes

5 inch long strand

Each druzy quartz bead measures about 25mm x 28mm

Chrysoprase Stone Beads | Smooth Oval | 14mm x 24mm Pendant nugget shaped beadsThe chrysoprase stone, as one of the rarest and most valuable type of chalcedony, is renowned for its delicious green color, found in no other type of gemstone except one, gaspeite. These chrysoprase beads are the famous apple green color, ranging slightly in hue from light green to a brilliantly intense green. The reason that the green of chrysophrase (and gaspeite) is so rare is because unlike every other green stone, it comes from nickel. Make