Green Garnet 4mm Microfaceted Round - 15-16 InchGreen Garnet can be among the most valuable of garnets, which come in a variety of colors. Occurring in sizes ranging from a grain of sand to the size of an apple, Garnet was used as far back as the Bronze Age. It has been prized both as an ornamental jewel and for its strong curative powers and protective energies.

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is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens

due to variations in iron content

however it does not exhibit the play of color seen in precious Opal

Origin: Brazil

and is sometimes referred to as “Matara Diamond” after the City in Sri Lanka near where the stone is mined

Mixed Impression Jasper is a composite made by fusing stone fragments using heat

Ocean Jasper is believed to be linked to the lost city of Atlantis and to hold mystic knowledge

Great on Beadalon #1 and #2 Crimp Beads or #2 Crimp Tubes

the treated stones are cut

It has a hardness of 8 on the Mohs hardness scale

with occasional inclusions of Black Tourmaline that crisscross the stone in fibrous patterns