Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal Viking explorers used thin pieces

Viking explorers used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing lens to help them determine the exact location of the sun for navigation

all organic parts are replaced by minerals

everything from colorless to black

originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mine in Afghanistan

Chiastolite is also known as the Cross Stone for the cross matrices of browns

Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal Viking explorers used thin piecesStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.