whose color often caused ancient jewelers to confuse it with Emerald
although the colors are much more muted
The name comes from the French word for lemon
as well as its iridescent sparkle
Spinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide
Mookaite 8mm Round Faceted - Large Hole Beads 10mm Multi whose color often caused ancientMookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Kennedy Ranges of Australia, the only region in the world where the stone is found. Mookaite is formed by the ancient skeletal remains of radiolaria, a microscopic protozoa with a silica shell, that were deposited in shallow sea beds. This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the