Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch 6-Dec black or brown veins running

black or brown veins running through it in web-like patterns

Rhodonite belongs to the Pyroxenoid group of minerals

AKA- Norena Jasper

Labradorite is usually gray to green

they actually occur in almost every color

Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch 6-Dec black or brown veins runningThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar