Prehnite 6x12-10x20mm Free Form Dancing Drops A Grade - 15-16 Inch Chrysoprase A particularly soft stone

A particularly soft stone

yellow to green or sea to green in color

ranges in color from light to dark green

This unique stone is named after a now debunked theory of a continent called “Lemuria” thought to have sunk into the Indian Ocean

with a Mohs Hardness of 8

Prehnite 6x12-10x20mm Free Form Dancing Drops A Grade - 15-16 Inch Chrysoprase A particularly soft stonePrehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer, Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn. Von Prehn discovered the stone in South Africa in 1774. Prehnite is translucent to transparent, in colors from light green to yellow green to olive, with occasional inclusions of Black Tourmaline that crisscross the stone in fibrous patterns. It is a phyllosilicate composed of silicon, calcium and aluminum with trace amounts of iron.