Kunzite 6mm Round Mixed - 15-16 InchKunzite was named after a former Tiffany & Co. vice president, famed mineralogist and jeweler George Frederick Kunz, who first catalogued the stone in 1902. It is a variety of the silicate Spodumene, and forms naturally as a glassy, transparent stone. It can be colorless, pink, lilac, yellow or green, with darker shades being higher in value. Kunzite is prone to fading in direct sunlight.

Composite beads may also be called "mosaic beads" because of the visible fragments

It was used in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

bubbles and crystal-rich layers that form as lava flows onto the surface of stone —

whose name is derived from the Greek word for Rose

red and brown

The stone fragments remain clearly visible

The name derives from the recurring chevron or “dog teeth” pattern of the stripes

First described in 1881

or x-ray analysis

a green-colored mineral

fluorannite

but unlike rubies