Botswana Red Agate 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads

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Botswana Red Agate 8mm Round - Large Hole BeadsBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.

It may also contain rainbow-colored or sparkling inclusions

consisting of opaque rust-red glass with tiny flecks of glittering copper suspended within it

known as "azure

and this phenomenon is thought to be due to impurities of yttrium or organic matter within the crystal lattice

and brown as well as pink

Stone Description -

one-of-a-kind beads

a mineralogist and jeweler

” and thought to be the luckiest of all crystals

” Phantom Quartz has the same chemical composition of other Quartz

The deposits within the rock become Turquoise after a chemical reaction occurs over long periods of time

having been worn by shamans