Heliotrope / Blood Jasper Pendant - Handmade in Germany

Handmade heliotrope pendant.

Heliotrope / Blood Jasper
A green variety of chalcedony with red flecks reminiscent of blood, hence the stone is also called blood jasper.
Heliotrope gets its green color from inclusions of hornblende and the red spots from inclusions of iron oxide.
It is this special color combination that makes heliotrope a popular gemstone.
The material is found in Australia, China, India, Brazil and the USA, among others.

The production
We saw, grind and polish our pendants by hand in our own small workshop in beautiful Bad Honnef on the Rhine.
For this purpose we use diamond-coated grinding wheels, saw blades and drills to shape and grind the hard stones and to achieve a beautiful shine by polishing them.