Kamuikotan Stone Beads Available

Kamuikotan Stone (Hokkaido)

$9.99

Sold per: 1 piece

Colors in the main photo: Black Read from the main photo’s appearance; not a material identification.

Sold loose, priced per piece. Sizes and pictures follow the bracelet designer. Plan a bracelet with it in the designer

About this stone: Kamuikotan Stone

Kamuikotan stone (Kamuikotan-seki) is a natural metamorphic rock, not a single mineral: a hard, compact, dark blue-green to black rock collected as river boulders in the Kamuikotan gorge of the Ishikari River in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Japanese reference works describe it as an alkali-amphibole-bearing mafic to siliceous metamorphic rock, and it is one of Hokkaido's best-known viewing stones (suiseki) and garden stones.

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