Go Above Your Nerve bracelet 547

The center silver bead on this bracelet reminds us: "If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve." Along with dark and light blue Lake Superior beach glass, basalt, and amethyst, this bracelet will go with any outfit.

LAKE SUPERIOR AMETHYST
Lake Superior Amethyst can range from pale to deep purple, and from warm to cool hues. Amethyst is a type of quartz with a trigonal crystal structure and is comparable to agates with a hardness of 7. The Lake Superior Amethyst is formed when hot hydrothermal solutions rise through fractures in rocks and fill them with amethyst crystals and is found in veins in granite and other rocks around Thunder Bay, Ontario.

BASALT
Basalt is by far the most common rocks you will find on Lake Superior’s North Shore beaches. It is one of the four rock-types that make up the basement bedrock of the earth’s crust. Basically it is lava that cooled quickly on the surface. Each one has a distinctive shape and in a variety of shades of color from blush-black to grey. That quick cooling is what caused it to be dense, very fine grained (tiny crystals) and smooth - although the smooth surface is also due to glacial grinding & Gitche Gumee tossing it about for eons. That Basalt rock you hold in your hand (or wear on your body) is over a billion years old!

Hand fabricated sterling silver bead by Anne Choi.