Gemstone Beads

Layers of exquisite color and banded patterns come together in the purple crazy lace agate 12mm square beads from Dakota Stones. These square-shaped beads are slightly puffed to give them extra dimension. The purple colors swirl with black and burgundy...

The purple crazy lace agate 15x30mm oval beads are aptly named, because the patterns they display are certainly erratic. These elongated oval-shaped beads would look lovely with turquoise elements. The purple colors are swirled with patterns of burgundy...

Warm drops of purple color will accent your designs when you use the purple crazy lace agate 4mm round beads from Dakota Stones. These small round beads would make excellent spacers in colorful designs. The purple color is swirled with burgundy and black...

Simple, classic shape combines with rich, royal color in the purple crazy lace agate 8mm round beads from Dakota Stones. These beads would look beautiful with silk ribbon. The purple color is swirled with banded patterns of burgundy and black. They have...

Luxurious style can be yours with these gemstone beads from Dakota Stones. These round beads are tiny in size and feature diamond-shaped facets cut into the surface for added shine. These beads would work well in bead embroidery or seed bead designs. Use...

Bring daring style to your designs with these Dakota Stones beads. These red garnet beads feature a round shape with diamond-shaped facets bringing extra shine and texture to each bead. They are versatile in size, so you can use them in necklaces,...

Create an organic style with these gemstone beads. These gemstone beads feature a classic round shape that can be used anywhere. They are the perfect size for matching necklace and bracelet sets. These rhyolite beads feature swirls of sage, olive, cream,...

Keep your designs graceful with the Dakota Stones rose quartz 8mm round beads. Available by the strand, these beads are perfectly round in shape and display a soft, pale pink shade full of hazy beauty. It has a hazy to translucent look due to microscopic...

Sweeten up your style with these Dakota Stones beads. These gemstone beads feature a round shape with a star cut filled with triangular facets. You'll love using these beads in matching necklace and bracelet sets. These beads feature a soft, pale pink...

Bold color fills these 3mm round beads from Dakota Stones. These ruby beads feature red and purple colors, along with some brown and orange tones. These beads are small in size, so you can use them as small accents of color in earrings or a bracelet...

Give your designs dramatic accents with the smoky quartz 8mm large-hole round beads from Dakota Stones. Available by the strand, these gemstone beads will amaze and delight with their innovative design. Each bead features a wide stringing hole, perfect...

Energize your designs with this Dakota Stones tourmaline faceted 6mm energy prism bead strand. The beads on this strand feature a faceted cut helping them catch the light. This strand features spacers between each of the beads, so you could use it as-is,...

Decorate styles with the many colors of these Dakota Stones beads. These tourmaline beads feature a round shape with a star cut filled with triangular facets. The facets gleam from every angle, so they are sure to draw attention to designs. They are...

Bring gemstone style to your designs with these turquoise beads from Dakota Stones. These beads feature a cube shape with facets that catch the light. Their small size makes them work great as spacers, or to add a pop of color to your design. Turquoise...

Honey color fills the Dakota Stones yellow Jade 4mm round beads. Available by the strand, these beads are perfectly round in shape, so they will work well in classic styles. They are small in size, making them excellent spacers or accents of color. This...

Add mellow color to designs with the Dakota Stones yellow Jade 8mm round beads. Available by the strand, these beads are perfectly round in shape, so they will work well in classic styles. They are the perfect size for matching necklaces and bracelets...

Denim lapis beads provide a more economical, lighter blue variety of lapis lazuli beads. Like other lapis, denim lapis contains grains of several blue minerals, including lazurite and sodalite, plus a matrix that includes speckles of pyrite. The lighter...

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Eagle Eye (Jasper?): It's difficult to find reliable information on Eagle Eye. We were told it's jasper, but it has hints of shimmer and translucence that don't normally occur in jaspers. Is it feldspar (like moonstone and labradorite)? Is it a gray form...

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Fancy Jasper beads are also known as India agate beads. These pretty semiprecious beads add color to any jewelry application with their swirls and speckles of lavender, green, pink, orange, and/or red on an opaque creamy beige or gray background. Some...

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Add a splash of enchantment to your handmade creations with our exquisite Gem-Cut Rondelle 5 x 3mm beads in Blue Chalcedony. Crafted from the highest quality Czech glass by renowned artisans at Brand-Starman, these beads are the epitome of elegance and...

Aventurine is a form of chalcedony (quartz) that contains small inclusions of various shiny minerals. These materials, usually spangles of mica or iron oxide, give the stone a glistening effect known as aventurescence. Aventurine's granular appearance...

Garnet is actually a group of closely related isomorphic minerals which can even intergrow within one crystal! Our green garnet beads are most likely Grossular garnet, which has a wide range of potential colors from a warm cinnamon color through shades...

Howlite beads are cut from a naturally white form of calcium silicoborate that often features a dark gray or black spider-web matrix. Sometimes called albino turquoise, white jasper, or white turquoise, naturally white howlite is perfect for creating...

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Iolite: This silicate mineral (cordierite) can occur as crystals or grains in igneous rocks, as a result of aluminous sediment in magma. Also known as water sapphires, dichroite, Spanish lazulite, and Vikings' compass, the transparent purple-blue variety...

Also known as evening stone, lithia amethyst, and pink spodumene, kunzite offer a touch of pastels to our gemstone beads line. One of few naturally pink gemstones, this transparent stone is a pale-pink to lilac variety of the mineral spodumene. Similar...

Labradorite offers striking rainbow-colored reflections when light hits them from a particular direction. The labradorescence, or schiller, in these semiprecious beads and pendants offers the same stunning visual effect created by gasoline on water, or...

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Agate is said to be named for the place it first was found — along the River Achates (now called the River Drillo) in Sicily. In ancient times, agate was highly valued as a talisman or amulet. It was said to quench thirst and protect from fever. Persian...

The name Lapis Lazuli comes from the Latin word for "stone" (lapis) and the Arabian word for "blue" (azul). True to their name, these semiprecious beads offer naturally blue shades with inclusions that twinkle like stars in the tales of the Arabian...

The name Lapis Lazuli comes from the Latin word for "stone" (lapis) and the Arabian word for "blue" (azul). True to their name, these semiprecious beads offer naturally blue shades with inclusions that twinkle like stars in the tales of the Arabian...

Malachite beads are also known as peacock stone beads, pseudo emerald beads, and silver peak jade beads. This lush green gemstone is a basic copper carbonate that is vividly banded. It is a chemical twin of azurite, and the two stones are commonly found...

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This semiprecious basic black gemstone closely resembles black onyx, but since we have been unable to verify its true classification, "black stone" is the most honest name we can give to these beads and pendants. Note that black stone jewelry components...

Natural agate beads add a warm glow to jewelry creations, from the glow of a hearth fire in winter, to the glow of a beach sunset in summer! Also known as multicolor carnelian beads, our natural agate beads offer shades ranging from deep orange to bright...

Druzy: The stunning visual appeal of druzy beads and pendants makes them great options for jewelry focals. Sometimes spelled druse or drusy, druzy is a layer of fine crystals that forms on the inner surfaces of geodes and rock fractures over millions of...

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The name apatite is quite appropriate, considering this mineral makes up the teeth in all vertebrate animals (and teeth are used to satisfy one's appetite!). In fact, it comprises more than 60% of the bones and teeth in humans, fish, birds, cows, and...

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Mookaite jasper beads add warmth to gemstone jewelry with bright splashes of red, yellow and brown. These semiprecious beads are cut from an Australian jasper that is also known as mook jasper, mookakite, mookalite, mookite, mooksite, moonkite, and...

Morganite is the pink to orange-pink variety of beryl, a mineral that includes emerald and aquamarine. Morganite is a pink stone of love. It is said to carry an energy that can warm the soul of its wearer. It is considered valuable for opening the heart...

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Olive Jade: Yellowish-green olive jade beads are occasionally called peridot stone due to their color (not because of any relationship to that gemstone). Olive jade is actually a form of serpentine, and is not a "true" jade. These semiprecious beads are...

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Orthoceras is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod. Their long slender shells varied in length from less than a centimeter to more than 14 feet! You may have seen stunning large carved panels, book ends or tables showcasing multiple Orthoceras...

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Amazonite is a rare blue-green variety of microcline (a feldspar mineral) used as a semiprecious stone. Amazonite (sometimes called Amazon Stone) is an opaque stone, often found with white, yellow or gray inclusions and a silky luster or silvery sheen...

Sand-colored picture jasper beads display streaks and marking that often seem to depict landscapes - from desert sand dunes to rocky mountains to dry riverbeds. This semiprecious gemstone is actually petrified mud. The mud was rich in quartz that oozed...

Tourmaline is a complex crystalline silicate containing aluminum, boron and other elements. Its name derives from the Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) word tura mali, meaning "stone of mixed colors," and tourmaline is indeed found in blue (indicolite), yellow,...

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Red tigereye beads display strong chatoyance in bright orange-red to deep, opaque garnet-like hues. These semiprecious beads get their gorgeous color from a heat treatment that oxidizes the iron in tigereye and turns the gemstone red. As with all gems,...

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Rock crystal quartz, the most common form of macrocrystalline quartz, is a clear quartz with a colorless, transparent, quiet beauty. We're told that our supply of rock crystal beads is natural, but occasionally we suspect we've been sold lab-grown...

Rose quartz is one of the most desirable varieties of quartz in the gemstone trade. Also known as ancona ruby and mont blanc ruby, these semiprecious gemstones display a lovely, unique pink tone. Rose quartz beads have been found in Mesopotamia that date...

Rose quartz is one of the most desirable varieties of quartz in the gemstone trade. Also known as ancona ruby and mont blanc ruby, these semiprecious gemstones display a lovely, unique pink tone. Rose quartz beads have been found in Mesopotamia that date...

Brownish smoky quartz beads are almost always cut from rock crystal quartz that has been heat-treated to produce this coveted color (ours included). Tones of smoky quartz range from yellowish to deep translucent brown. Good specimens of natural untreated...

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Tigereye Beads come in richly chatoyant browns and yellows with a golden luster. While legends exist of Roman soldiers wearing this "all seeing" stone for protection in battle, tigereye was not considered a semiprecious gemstone until the late 19th...

Tigereye Beads come in richly chatoyant browns and yellows with a golden luster. While legends exist of Roman soldiers wearing this "all seeing" stone for protection in battle, tigereye was not considered a semiprecious gemstone until the late 19th...

Tigereye Beads come in richly chatoyant browns and yellows with a golden luster. While legends exist of Roman soldiers wearing this "all seeing" stone for protection in battle, tigereye was not considered a semiprecious gemstone until the late 19th...

Tourmalated quartz beads are cut from quartz that is imbued with dark needles of tourmaline. Also known as black hair quartz beads, these beautiful semiprecious beads are in the family of macrocrystalline quartz - that is, quartz with crystals that are...

Tourmalated quartz beads are cut from quartz that is imbued with dark needles of tourmaline. Also known as black hair quartz beads, these beautiful semiprecious beads are in the family of macrocrystalline quartz - that is, quartz with crystals that are...

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Variscite is a relatively rare phosphate mineral that is named for Variscia, the medieval name of Vogtland, Germany. It is sometimes confused with turquoise but is usually greener. Variscite's bright color comes from traces of chromium. It has a waxy...

Wild Horse jasper is also known as wildhorse picture jasper, American picture jasper, and owyhee jasper. Jaspers have been popular since the ancient world. They are said to give the wearer courage to speak out and bravery to achieve personal independence...

Wood Opal (also known as wood opalite, agatized wood and fossilized wood) is petrified wood, where the organic material has been replaced with hydrated amorphous Silicon Dioxide (opal), but keeping the same layered structure as the original wood. Wood...

Aquamarine belongs to the beryl gemstone family. Bead-grade aquamarine tends to have many interesting inclusions and numerous opaque areas. The more intense the color of this stone, the higher its value. Aquamarine is a hard gemstone, which makes it an...

Moonstone Beads: With its ghostly glow, this feldspar stone almost seems magical. High-quality moonstone is usually chatoyant and sometimes displays a strong cat's eye. The floating-light phenomenon and sheen of moonstone are called adularescence or...

Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper phyllosilicate mineral, in shades of green, blue, blue-green, black and brown. It is commonly found in copper mines. Pure chrysocolla is soft and fragile. However, most chrysocolla beads are in a matrix of rock crystal...

Iolite: Also known as water sapphires, dichroite, Spanish lazulite, and Vikings' compass, the transparent purple-blue variety of this stone is iolite, named after the Greek word for violet, ios. While this semiprecious gemstone has a nice Mohs hardness...

The name Lapis Lazuli comes from the Latin word for "stone" (lapis) and the Arabian word for "blue" (azul). True to their name, these semiprecious beads offer naturally blue shades with inclusions that twinkle like stars in the tales of the Arabian...

Moonstone Beads: With its ghostly glow, this feldspar stone almost seems magical. High-quality moonstone is usually chatoyant and sometimes displays a strong cat's eye. The floating-light phenomenon and sheen of moonstone are called adularescence or...

Quartz is said to be the universal healing stone. Quartz crystals are believed to promote hope, happiness, and optimism while awakening us to the beauty of nature.Amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, is said to instill high ideals and urge one to do...

Rose quartz is one of the most desirable varieties of quartz in the gemstone trade. Also known as ancona ruby and mont blanc ruby, these semiprecious gemstones display a lovely, unique pink tone. Rose quartz beads have been found in Mesopotamia that date...

Tigereye Beads come in richly chatoyant browns and yellows with a golden luster. While legends exist of Roman soldiers wearing this "all seeing" stone for protection in battle, tigereye was not considered a semiprecious gemstone until the late 19th...

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