Mookaite 2x4mm Heishi - 15-16 Inch Faceted Drop Lapis was ground and processed

Lapis was ground and processed to make the pigment ultramarine for use in frescoes and oil painting

” the Sinhalese word for “mixed color precious stone

use it for anklets

Famous malachite mines in the Ural mountains of Russia once produced 20-ton blocks of the stone

Mookaite 2x4mm Heishi - 15-16 Inch Faceted Drop Lapis was ground and processedMookaite 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