Botswana Agate 6x8mm Triangle Cut Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch Shape_Oval LH Malachite was used extensively as

Malachite was used extensively as decoration in the palaces of Russian tsars and forms the columns of St

African Jade is a complex Calcium Aluminum Silicate and is a Nephrite Jade

but a combination of minerals

It can even exhibit various colors within the same specimen

The yellowish colors of heliodor are usually caused by small amounts of iron within the mineral's crystal structure

Botswana Agate 6x8mm Triangle Cut Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch Shape_Oval LH Malachite was used extensively asBotswana 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.