Botswana Agate 6mm Round - Large Hole Beads 7x9-8x10mm These strands were cut into

These strands were cut into beads with some of the material the Chalcedony was mined out of remaining

Like all of Dakota Stones items

Like other forms of jasper it is a power

often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil

as well as a prismatic quality that differentiates it from other varieties of Moonstone

Botswana Agate 6mm Round - Large Hole Beads 7x9-8x10mm These strands were cut intoBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.