Larvikite Large Hole 8mm Round - 8-inch HPS12152022 This stone is relatively soft

This stone is relatively soft

Rhyolite has a non to crystalline composition similar to granite but with a smaller grain size

including Diamond

in colors from light green to yellow green to olive

mined since 4000 BCE

Larvikite Large Hole 8mm Round - 8-inch HPS12152022 This stone is relatively softThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? 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? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar