Mookaite 6mm Round Faceted - Large Hole Beads R0861 Stone Type: Madagascar Agate

Stone Type: Madagascar Agate

depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate

A particularly soft stone

Ancient Egyptians believed Red Jasper to be connected to the fertilizing blood of Mother Isis

Named in honor of Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

Mookaite 6mm Round Faceted - Large Hole Beads R0861 Stone Type: Madagascar AgateMookaite 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