Botswana Agate 6x8mm Triangle Cut Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 InchBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.

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

Red Lightning Agate is predominantly red with swirls and mottling of green

meaning it becomes magnetically charged from heat or friction

and Rutile as well

Because it doesn't harden the stone

The measurements and weights are approximate

it occurs in a wide variety of patterns

Feldspars are a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals

red and white -- as well as for its opacity and patterns

and pattern

Most topaz grows as crystals within the veins and voids of igneous rocks

” and thought to be the luckiest of all crystals