Charoite 8mm Round - 15-16 Inch New Strands for the New Year Elephant Skin Jasper

Elephant Skin Jasper

pattern and finish of the original DZI beads

The first rough material was offered for sale in Tucson in 2011 and is now regularly mined at the remote deposit site in Sonora

Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns

Charoite 8mm Round - 15-16 Inch New Strands for the New Year Elephant Skin JasperCharoite is a stone that naturally occurs in intense purple hues, as well as grays, browns, greenish yellows, white and black. These colors swirl throughout the stone in fascinating matrices of color. Originally discovered in the 1940s and not introduced commercially until 1978, it is a relative newcomer to the gem market. The name is derived from the Charo River in eastern Siberia, Russia, the only site where it can be found.