Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Shape_Barrel Beads Per Strand: 68

Beads Per Strand: 68

features intricate light brown patterns on dark brown stones

The first rough material was offered for sale in Tucson in 2011 and is now regularly mined at the remote deposit site in Sonora

and as such is a particularly soft stone

from which its name was derived

Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Shape_Barrel Beads Per Strand: 68Shattuckite 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.