Larvikite 8mm Faceted Round Large Hole - 8-inch Change Tourmaline has often been confused

Tourmaline has often been confused with other stones

Naturally occurring in hues of blue-green to green with spots and streaks of red

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and those that still exist today have been passed down for generations

Larvikite 8mm Faceted Round Large Hole - 8-inch Change Tourmaline has often been confusedThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar