Larvikite Large Hole 8mm Round - 8-inch Eagle Eye from light blue to lapis

from light blue to lapis blue to cobalt

This species is formally identified as Gliricidia sepium and can be found by different colloquial names in various parts of the world

they come in a rainbow of colors besides red

This stone is composed of angular fragments of minerals

Larvikite Large Hole 8mm Round - 8-inch Eagle Eye from light blue to lapisThe 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