Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_09072023 or color-enhanced

or color-enhanced

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

with inclusions of iron oxide

*These beads are "diamond cut"

Shattuckite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_09072023 or color-enhancedShattuckite 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.