Gleaming Faceted Banded Rainbow Agate Beads - 6mmPrice is per 14 1 2 inch string. Each bead measure 6mm. No gemstone is more creatively striped by nature than agate, chalcedony quartz that forms in concentric layers in a wide variety of colours and textures. Each individual agate forms by filling a cavity in host rock. As a result, agate often is found as a round nodule, with concentric bands like the rings of a tree trunk. The bands sometimes look like eyes, sometimes fanciful scallops, or even a

so is sold in individual beads for hundreds of US dollars each

Price is per 17-inch string - about 18 nuggets to the string

but also for the reputed magical and medicinal properties

Moonstone brings confidence and calms the emotions

Ready for stringing

Shining silver and brown with very long icicles

Average size about 13mm x 9mm x 6mm - around 36 beads to the string

and excellent for meditation

Price is per 16 1/2-inch string of these striking beads - each measures a large 16mm x 10mm

and they will go a long way

So called "Frames" because they look like the frame of spectacles

formed by volcanic rock reacting to copper deposits brought by water