Strawberry Quartz 8mm Round - Large Hole BeadsStrawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.

It is sometimes used for scalpel blades in cardiac surgery

intricate patterns of minute black flecks

Red Lightning Agate is predominantly red with swirls and mottling of green

" a type of reversible photochromism

originally from the Lapis-Lazuli mine in Afghanistan

Weight: grams: 80-100 grams

and Magtalisai

Bayong is a hardwood native to the Philippines with a natural red-brown color

as well as grays

meaning that it has lustre and some translucency without the fire or color play associated with precious opal varieties

Blue Chalcedony is reputed to help with communication

It has a hardness of 8 on the Mohs hardness scale