Red Garnet 8mm Star Cut Faceted Coin Beads - 15-16 Inch Azurite It can be easily confused

It can be easily confused with other minerals due to its variety of colors and formations

Turquoise beads found in Iraq date back to 5000 BCE

grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite)

as well as a lucky stone for sailors

Australian Aboriginal tribes referred to Black Opal as "Fire of the Desert

Red Garnet 8mm Star Cut Faceted Coin Beads - 15-16 Inch Azurite It can be easily confusedRed Garnet is the most commonly known type of Garnet, which occurs in many colors. Garnet has been used for adornment and spirituality by myriad cultures and civilizations throughout history, its oldest known use being in Egypt more than five thousand years ago. Garnet is used today not only as an ornamental gem, but also for industrial purposes from watch gears and scientific instruments to sandpaper and other abrasives.