Blood Stone Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm not a single mineral -

not a single mineral - the reason no two beads repeat

The "tree" is manganese and iron oxide - minerals that crept along fine cracks and branched as they grew

where Greeks gathered it more than two thousand years ago

A different sandalwood entirely

Larvikite - small tumble-polished stones of dark grey to black

Blood Stone Crystal Bracelet Bead Size:10 mm not a single mineral -Bloodstone a deep green chalcedony crossed by red iron oxide spots, the stone the Greeks called heliotrope, the sun turner. Dark, earthy, marked like nothing else in the quartz family. From India, strung on elastic cord. The green is the chalcedony body; the red is iron oxide, the same mineral that reddens jasper, gathered into flecks and small veins a scatter of fine points on some stones, bold streaks on others, no two alike. Pliny described the