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Black Spinel 6mm Round - 15-16 InchSpinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide, and comes in a range of other colors, but those varieties are transparent. Black Spinel not only has the dark color, but it is opaque as well, rendering its black especially deep and mysterious. Sometimes called the "Black Prince's Ruby" for its role in the English crown. It has been mistaken for ruby and sapphire at times, but can be distinguished by its structure and its lower relative hardness.

It was used in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Onyx has been both revered and feared throughout history

or color-enhanced

in Karelia

although the colors are much more muted

These Dakota Stones "DZI" style agate beads are made to resemble beads first found in India between 1000 and 2000 BCE

honey or brown

Jade refers to an ornamental mineral

Known in antiquity as the Speaker’s Stone

Nangka is the name commonly used in the Philippines for the Jackfruit Tree

Preservation is enabled by a lack of oxygen

the mineral was named for French paleontologist Eugene Durmortier (1803-1873)