Natural stones vary. Your strand will match these photos in colour and size range, not bead for bead. Photographed under daylight-balanced light with no colour correction.
K2 Granite 22x34mm Faceted Triangle
Specifications
| SKU | GS246 |
|---|---|
| Stone | K2 granite |
| Shape | Trilliant |
| Bead size | 22x34mm |
| Cut | Faceted |
| Color | — |
| Weight | On request |
| Hardness (Mohs) | 6 to 7 |
| Origin | Cut in Jaipur, India |
| Availability | In stock |
K2 Granite often called “K2 Jasper”, it’s a naturally occurring blue/white gemstone. K2 Stone is a combination of white granite (powerful earth stone with grounding property), blue azurite (helps to develop psychic abilities), and sometimes malachite.
What it makes
Trilliants are used for pendants, earrings. Measured side by side, e.g. 9x10mm; usually drilled top-drilled across one corner. More about trilliants.
Granite from the foot of K2, with azurite raindrops.
White ground, blue dots. On a strand of K2 granite the beads read like small maps: chalky white rock salted with black grains, mica catching the light as you turn it, and round patches of azurite blue that look painted on. Some orbs are the size of a pinhead, some as wide as a fingernail, and they fade softly into the rock at their edges rather than stopping at a line. No two beads match. That is most of the appeal.
Tradition calls K2 a stone of balance. That is the whole of the claim as it reaches us, repeated in crystal circles without much elaboration, and we pass it along the same way: belief, not fact. People who keep the beads speak of balance in their own terms, and the word has stayed attached to a rock that holds two unlike things in one piece. Nothing in it is a promise, and none of it takes the place of anything else. If the idea appeals to you, hold it the way traditions are best held: loosely, and without asking it to do work.
Beliefs about stones are tradition, not advice. Read the full story.
Not a jasper. White granite (quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite) with round orbs of blue azurite, from the foot of K2 in the Karakoram, Skardu district, Pakistan. Granite is Mohs 6 to 7, azurite 3.5 to 4, but the azurite is a stain along grain boundaries, so the orbs polish like the granite.
Necklaces and earrings; feldspar scratches in bracelets. Soapy water; no acids, which attack azurite.
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