Beautiful sterling lever back earrings featuring a bezel set, chevron cut, Leopardskin Jasper. The first drop area of the earring has a bezel set, horizontal, rectangular cut genuine Peridot stone. Natural colors on the stones are lime green, black and brown.
Peridot is the August birthstone. It is an Olivine stone. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that only occurs in one color. Peridot can be found in mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava.
You can already guess why this stone was named Leopardskin. Another fact is that Leopardskin Jasper is a silicon dioxide with various inclusion that create it's desirable patterns. Jasper, in general, are varieties of the quartz family that may contain up to 20 percent foreign materials or inclusions, including organic material and mineral oxides