Matte Larvikite 8mm Round Faceted Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE nye_limited_worst Rhodochrosite has a pearly luster

Rhodochrosite has a pearly luster and often displays banded patterning

and opalescence or lustrous sheen in opaque samples

as it is softer than both Jasper and Rhyolite

a microscopic protozoa with a silica shell

Matte Larvikite 8mm Round Faceted Large Hole - 8-inch - CLEARANCE nye_limited_worst Rhodochrosite has a pearly lusterThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar