Mookaite 8mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_06182026 Spinel is a hard vitreous

Spinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide

and as such is a particularly soft stone

depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate

priests and kings and believed to be a powerful protection stone

Noreena Jasper is a silicified pelite or mudstone mined in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

Mookaite 8mm Round - 15-16 Inch featured_06182026 Spinel is a hard vitreousMookaite 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