Matte Larvikite 8mm Round Faceted Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Size_2-3x6-7mm Crazy Lace Agate is often

Crazy Lace Agate is often dyed to produce colors that do not naturally occur in the stone

Garnet was used as far back as the Bronze Age

“Butter” suggests qualities of smoothness

gray and purple

The presence of chromium is what gives a ruby its red color

Matte Larvikite 8mm Round Faceted Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Size_2-3x6-7mm Crazy Lace Agate is oftenThe 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