Botswana Agate 6mm Round - Large Hole Beads Protection Bloodstone was known in antiquity

Bloodstone was known in antiquity as Heliotrope

Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red

Smoky Quartz is a translucent smoky brown or gray variety of Quartz

and used it to create amulets to be buried with the deceased

but is most commonly associated with white

Botswana Agate 6mm Round - Large Hole Beads Protection Bloodstone was known in antiquityBotswana 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.