Shattuckite 8mm Star Cut Coin - 15-16 Inch CutFaceted Whether you're drawn to it's

Whether you're drawn to it's beauty or you are a collector of cool rocks

and forms around pieces of sand or other irritations within such a mollusc’s shell to create pearls

Its inclusions of golden tones to rust to red are due to traces of hematite embedded in the stone

” is known for its pink

The boundaries of the included crystals are visible and are known as “phantoms

Shattuckite 8mm Star Cut Coin - 15-16 Inch CutFaceted Whether you're drawn to it'sShattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral. It occurs in bright turquoise blues and darker blues as well as rust reds, commonly with inclusions of copper in speckled patterns throughout the stone. Shattuckite is a pseudomorph, meaning it forms by replacing another minerals crystal structure atom by atom with its own crystal structure, with little alteration of the external shape of the original crystal.