Blood Quartz 8mm Round Grade A 15-16 Inch Healing manganese and other metallic oxides

manganese and other metallic oxides captured during the forming of the rock

These inclusions give it a glistening effect termed “aventurescence

Blue Lace Agate is a naturally occurring soft blue agate

Lepidocrosite

the resulting rock is dark gray to deep black in color and riddled with pits and holes where air was trapped in the stone

Blood Quartz 8mm Round Grade A 15-16 Inch Healing manganese and other metallic oxidesEverything you loved about Blood Quartz is magnified in the A Grade version of the material. The quality and transparency of the Quartz almost makes the red spots (caused by iron and hematite) look suspended in time. Blood Quartz is a clear to milky to white silicon dioxide mineral. Its inclusions of red, orange and rust are due to traces of hematite within the stone. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history,