Astrophyllite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Tumbled Nugget It displays a visual property

It displays a visual property called “pleochroism

000 years ago

The light color indicates that it was harvested from a young tree

It has been discovered with artifacts from cultures of the Neolithic Period

These colors swirl throughout the stone in fascinating matrices of color

Astrophyllite 6mm Round - 15-16 Inch Tumbled Nugget It displays a visual propertyAstrophyllite is a very rare, brown to golden yellow hydrous potassium iron titanium silicate mineral. Astrophyllite gets its name from the Greek words astron meaning "star" and phyllon meaning "leaf". The mineral is heavy, soft and fragile, and was first discovered in 1854 in Norway.