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Blue Goldstone 8mm Round - 15-16 InchBlue Goldstone is an opaque, midnight blue glass with flecks of copper suspended within it. These flecks glitter as they catch the light and may appear white against the dark blue of the glass. Goldstone was first created during the Italian Renaissance when, as legend has it, a Venetian monk tipped molten copper into a vat of molten glass. When this combination crystallized, the result was glass permeated with thousands of tiny metallic sparkles.

When they're dry

or some degree of pink in between

which forms in geodes and is generally found in clusters of crystal points

and much of the black Onyx on the market has been artificially colored

Charoite is a stone that naturally occurs in intense purple hues

Iron gives them blue

Kabamby Ocean Jasper was first mined in 2002

The cleaner facet from this cutting process results in significantly more sparkle than seen in stone cut by other methods

though treated stones have more potassium in them than before

which receive their color from trace amounts of chromium

the third to hardest common natural gemstone

Red Creek Jasper is named for the Red River in china where the stone was recently discovered