RARE Premium Multi-Colored Pietersite Mixed Shape Designer Bead Strands, 10 inch Strand
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RARE Premium Multi-Colored Pietersite Mixed Shape Designer Bead Strands, 10 inch Strand
These Strands have Blue Pietersite 7x16mm Rice beads, and Bronze Pietersite 10mm Round Beads
Pietersite is a rare Blue, dark-gray or reddish breccia aggregate (rock made up of fragments embedded in a matrix), comprised mostly of hawk's eye and tiger's eye. Pietersite from Namibia was first described in 1962 by Sid Pieters, who named it in his father's honor
Pietersite is characterized by its distinctive swirls or streaks of gold or orange, due to the crocidolite inclusions within a microcrystalline silica host. Crocidolite is the same material responsible for tiger's eye chatoyancy. When polished, the inclusions in pietersite exhibit chaotic chatoyancy whereas in tiger's eye, the inclusions are arranged in parallel lines and give the appearance of a continuous line.
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