Green Lodalite Quartz 14-16x28mm Nugget Faceted - 15-16 Inch BirdsEye Rhyolite currently believed to be due

currently believed to be due to the presence of a copper-based mineral such as Malachite or Azurite

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

a 19th-century German professor of chemistry and mineralogy

Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn

and features dark manganese dendrites throughout

Green Lodalite Quartz 14-16x28mm Nugget Faceted - 15-16 Inch BirdsEye Rhyolite currently believed to be dueGreen Lodolite is Quartz with inclusions of sand. These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens. This inspired the stones alias, Garden Quartz. Quartz has been highly valued by virtually every civilization throughout history, often used in healing and meditation and as religious objects in funerary rites and to dispel evil.