Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal making it the hardest silicate

making it the hardest silicate mineral

everything from colorless to black

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

but is prized

often called the "Super Seven" or "Melody Stone" contains Amethyst

Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads African Blue Opal making it the hardest silicateStrawberry 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.