Tourmalated Quartz Green 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Nephrite Spinel is a hard vitreous

Spinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide

often found with white

Its inclusions of golden tones to rust to red are due to traces of hematite embedded in the stone

and are indigenous to those countries

Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer

Tourmalated Quartz Green 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Nephrite Spinel is a hard vitreousTourmalated Quartz is clear Quartz that has formed with Black Tourmaline. These needle to like black inclusions of Tourmaline are quite striking within the clear, colorless stone. It is believed that the melding of these two stones creates a powerful healing energy. 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.