Red Botswana Agate 10mm Round - 15-16 InchRed Botswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.

It is a variety of the mineral corundum

a warm peach

African Jade is a complex Calcium Aluminum Silicate and is a Nephrite Jade

so treat it gently

Mined in Norway

and because its hardness has made the stone perfect for beads and cabochons

Ruby was valued more highly than any other gem

but those varieties are transparent

used by ancient cultures including the Egyptians and Aztecs for adornment and ceremonial purposes

browns and grays are reminiscent of a rainforest

and bold black spiderweb matrix—creating highly distinctive

It was named from the Latin "Thule" - which was a term used by ancient Greeks and Romans to refer to the then-little-known lands to the north or present day Scandinavia