Black Spinel 4mm Faceted Coin - 15-16 InchSpinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide, and comes in a range of other colors, but those varieties are transparent. Black Spinel not only has the dark color, but it is opaque as well, rendering its black especially deep and mysterious. Sometimes called the "Black Prince's Ruby" for its role in the English crown. It has been mistaken for ruby and sapphire at times, but can be distinguished by its structure and its lower relative hardness.

meaning it forms by replacing another mineral’s crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure

Because these pendants are made with natural and assembled materials

but has been used historically to describe the transparent variety

compressing after each rotation until the crimp is rounded

Argentinian Blue Onyx and Argentinian Aquamarine Onyx

the other being Diamond

Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family

and it might be easy to understand why

It encourages unconditional self-love and acceptance

Rutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle-like inclusions of Rutile

Our strands

often occurring with inclusions of white