Matte Larvikite 10mm Round Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Tourmaline Flash Sale African Jade is a complex

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

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this wood variety is so hard that it is often used in heavy construction for beams

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It is highly prized for its beautiful combinations of colors and for its opalescence — the pearly luster of the opaque stone

Matte Larvikite 10mm Round Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE Tourmaline Flash Sale African Jade is a complexThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar