Mookaite 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads Army Jasper Viking explorers used thin pieces

Viking explorers used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing lens to help them determine the exact location of the sun for navigation

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Labradorite is usually gray to green

while today it is primarily mined in Africa

Mookaite 8mm Round - Large Hole Beads Army Jasper Viking explorers used thin piecesMookaite 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