Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch a grade Yellow Opal does not display

Yellow Opal does not display the changeable flash of internal luster that other opals are known for

second only to Quartz

a mineral of the Quartz family

meaning it forms by replacing another mineral’s crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure

" The "gift from the sun

Larvikite Natural 6mm Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch a grade Yellow Opal does not displayThe 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