Chocolate Selenite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Artistic Stone Viking explorers used thin pieces

Viking explorers used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing lens to help them determine the exact location of the sun for navigation

Blue Green Quartz

mineral deposits can create stone in the place of the decaying wood

and Egyptians were mining the stone as early as 3200 BCE

Chocolate Selenite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Artistic Stone Viking explorers used thin piecesSelenite is a crystal formed from the mineral gypsum, which comes in many forms and color variations, but has been used historically to describe the transparent variety. Our strands, cut as rounds are somewhat opaque and powerfully radiant fitting since its name originates from the Greek word for "moon," an allusion to the moon like white reflections of the mineral or to the quality of the light transmitted from the stone.