Mookaite 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch Origin_Pakistan a hydrous copper silicate

a hydrous copper silicate

making crimp beads essential for creating professional-looking

While sometimes marketed as jasper

Many of the earliest gem traders did not realize that these yellowish stones were actually different materials

who was a great admirer and collector of gemstones

Mookaite 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch Origin_Pakistan a hydrous copper silicateMookaite 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