Enrich your handmade jewelry designs with these small Prehnite cabochons that are too cute to not fall in love with.
Crafted with high quality material, these cabochons are perfect for creating luxurious nature inspired jewelry piece.
Add the right sparkle and shine to your creations with these cabochons♥
WHAT IS PREHNITE:
Prehnite is an inosilicate of calcium and aluminium and crystallizes most often forms as stalactitic or botryoidal shapes.
It occurs in a range of green colors, including pale green to dark green and yellow- to brown-green.
Prehnite may also occur gray, blue, orange, white and colorless.
A soft apple green color is most desirable, while blue, pink, colorless, white and orange are considered the rarest occurrences and are highly sought after by mineral collectors.
Until recently, Prehnite was a rare collector's gemstone, but new deposits have now made it more readily available.
In China, prehnite is sometimes referred to as Grape Jade owing to its typical nodule formations which often resemble a bunch of grape.
Size:
1- diam.12x7mm,
2- diam.11x7mm,
3- 14x10x7mm,
4- diam.12x7mm,
5- 15x10x6mm,
6- 13x10x6mm,
7- 11x10x4mm
Type: inosilicate of Calcium and Aluminium
Colour: apple green, translucent
Hardness: 6-6.5 on the Mohs scale
Metaphysical properties of Prehnite.