Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_09072023 a variety of Feldspar

a variety of Feldspar

Blue Apatite ranges in color from light teal-blue to bright blue to dark blue-green

It was first found in the Unaka Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina

It has been discovered with artifacts from cultures of the Neolithic Period

*These beads are "diamond cut"

Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_09072023 a variety of FeldsparShattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral. It occurs in bright turquoise blues and darker blues as well as rust reds, commonly with inclusions of copper in speckled patterns throughout the stone. Shattuckite is a pseudomorph, meaning it forms by replacing another minerals crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure, with little alteration of the external shape of the original crystal.