Tiger Eye Natural 6mm Round Matte Large Hole Beads - 8 InchTiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate from within the stone as they catch the light. Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an all to seeing, all to knowing eye, as well as a stone of prosperity, protection and good fortune. Approximate Hole Diameter: 2mm

Topaz obtains much of its popularity from its beautiful colors and its status as a birthstone

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

but has been used historically to describe the transparent variety

a silicate of calcium and magnesium -- from western Canada

firely new look to these stones

It is often thought of as an all to black stone

Tibet and other Asian countries

but those varieties are transparent

Its name is taken from the Greek word “rhyax

Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone

gray and black

It has been mistaken for ruby and sapphire at times