Brazilian Amazonite 6mm Coin Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite 6mm Coin Faceted - 15-16 InchBrazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally translucent milky white. It is named for the Amazon River in Brazil, where the stones are thought to have been originally found, however they are not currently sourced from that particular region. Amazonite has a long and illustrious history dating back to Mesopotamia. It was used in the Egyptian Book of the

It ranges from almost completely transparent to an almost opaque brownish to gray crystal

Opals are hydrated amorphous forms of silica

and has been discovered with artifacts from cultures of the Neolithic Period

The stone was first discovered in Sweden in the 1830s

The ancient Egyptians carved amulets of Jasper to be buried with their deceased to ensure safe passage to the afterlife

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madre xacao or madre de cacao

non-crystalline mineraloid consisting of a high percentage of carbon

due to exposure to different temperatures during its formation

The light color indicates that it was harvested from a young tree

white and reddish brown in speckles

in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan