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Pebble & Nugget Beads

Tumbled as they would be in nature, pebbles and nuggets come as close to a stone’s natural shape as you can get. They are then sized, sorted and stranded - offering an affordable way to incorporate stone into your jewelry.

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White Howlite 10x14mm Faceted Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Howlite is named for Canadian mineralogist Henry How, who first discovered the stone in Southern California in 1868. It is typically white or light...

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Blue Opal 10x20mm Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Peruvian Opal naturally occurs with swirling patterns of deep blues, blue to greens and greens swirled with yellow to green, rust, brown and o...

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Citrine 6x11 Smooth Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Citrine is a transparent Quartz, ranging in color from pale yellow to golden yellow, honey or brown, giving it a similar appearance to Topaz. It ma...

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Crystal Quartz 10mm Nugget A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Crystal Quartz is a naturally occurring clear and colorless Quartz. It is a crystalline form of Quartz said to have many divine properties includin...

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Labradorite 12x28-15x30mm Faceted Nugget AA Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...

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Labradorite 12x20-18x25mm Faceted Nugget AA Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...

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Sleeping Beauty Turquoise 5mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Dakota Stones’ Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is from the Sleeping Beauty mine in Globe, Arizona — famous for the outstanding robin’s egg blue color and...

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Ethiopian Opal 5-6mm Pebble Black - 15-16 Inch

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Ethiopian Opal was first discovered in Ethiopia in 1994, with additional major finds in 2008 and 2013. Beautiful specimens of Precious Opal, Fire O...

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Ethiopian Opal 5-11mm Nugget Green - 15-16 Inch

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Ethiopian Opal was first discovered in Ethiopia in 1994, with additional major finds in 2008 and 2013. Beautiful specimens of Precious Opal, Fire O...

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Botswana Agate 14-25mm Nugget Top Drill - 15-16 Inch

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Botswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Aga...

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Hematoid Quartz 10-18mm Freeform Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Hematoid Quartz is Quartz with inclusions of hematite. The hematite inclusions are responsible for the stone’s color, which can be yellow, orange, ...

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Red Garnet 6x8-10x12mm Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Red Garnet is the most commonly known type of Garnet, which occurs in many colors. Garnet has been used for adornment and spirituality by myriad cu...

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Citrine 7x15-9x17mm Nugget Center Drill Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Citrine is a transparent Quartz, ranging in color from pale yellow to golden yellow, honey or brown, giving it a similar appearance to Topaz. It ma...

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Blue Diamond 2-3mm Rough Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Diamond is a rare, naturally occurring mineral composed of pure carbon. Although most people think of diamonds as colorless, they actually occur i...

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Grey Diamond 2-3mm Rough Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Diamond is a rare, naturally occurring mineral composed of pure carbon. Although most people think of diamonds as colorless, they actually occur i...

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Rose Quartz 12x15-10x16mm Simple Cut Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Elisa Turquoise 5-6mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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This turquoise is mined from the Sonora mines in Mexico. Like all other natural turquoise, its coloring is the result of the chemical reaction that...

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Dog Teeth Amethyst 8x11mm Faceted Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Dog Teeth Amethyst has a purple and white striped appearance due to its combination of Amethyst and White Quartz. The name derives from the recurri...

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Turquoise 6x8-8x10mm Rough Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Turquoise is an ancient gemstone, one of the first known to man. Known to Egyptian and Aztec cultures thousands of years ago, Turquoise is now mine...

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Blue Lace Agate 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Lace Agate is a naturally occuring soft blue agate, laced with bands or swirls of brighter blue, periwinkle, white and occasionally gray or br...

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Black Rutilated Quartz 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Rutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle-like inclusions of Rutile. These “needles” usually appear golden, but can also app...

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Labradorite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...

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Larimar 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Larimar is a translucent blue, turquoise and white stone that can have streaks and patterns of white, as well as red or brown either from oxidation...

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Botswana Agate 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Botswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Aga...

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Chrysocolla 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Chrysocolla, a hydrous copper silicate, is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens. It often also occurs with colors ...

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Charoite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Charoite is a stone that naturally occurs in intense purple hues, as well as grays, browns, greenish yellows, white and black. These colors swirl t...

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Cacoxenite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Cacoxenite is the trade name for this naturally occurring blend of seven stone types. It was originally named for the visible inclusions of the min...

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Pietersite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Pietersite has been called the Tempest Stone for its colors of deep blue and gray with metallic gold and flashes of brilliant chatoyancy as it catc...

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Brazilian Amazonite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...

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Azurite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Azurite is a Copper carbonate mineral that forms in masses, stalactites, botryoidal, and short prismatic crystals. Azurite in crystal form is extre...

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Tiger Eye Mixed Yel/Red/Blue 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate f...

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Seraphinite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Seraphinite's chatoyancy (optical reflectance) gives it a feathery appearance associated with angels (also known as seraphim.) Seraphinite is most ...

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Tiger Eye 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate f...

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Rose Quartz 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Mookaite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Mookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Ken...

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Blue Moonstone 7x9-8x10mm Pebble A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. It's soft chatoyancy is remin...

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Ametrine 10x11-11x16mm Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Ametrine is quartz that occurs in bands of purple and yellow. As the name suggests, it is a combination of Amethyst and Citrine. The different colo...

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Ametrine 13x17-18x25mm Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Ametrine is quartz that occurs in bands of purple and yellow. As the name suggests, it is a combination of Amethyst and Citrine. The different colo...

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Morganite 10X15mm Tumble Nugget - 15-16 inch

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Morganite gets its pink hue from the presence of manganese or cesium in the stone. It's actually a pink variety of Beryl -- the family of gemstones...

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Green Lodalite Quartz 6-8X8-10mm Pebble - 15-16 inch

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Green Lodolite is Quartz with inclusions of sand. These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens....

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Green Lodalite Quartz 6-8X10-12mm Nugget Faceted - 15-16 inch

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Green Lodolite is Quartz with inclusions of sand. These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens....

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Labradorite 5X7mm-8X10mm Rough Nugget - 15-16 inch

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Gold Rutilated Quartz 5X7mm-8X10mm Rough Nugget - 15-16 inch - CLEARANCE

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Rutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle to like inclusions of Rutile. These “needles” usually appear golden, but can also ...

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Prehnite Natural 6X8 Pebble SD A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer, Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn. Von Prehn discovered the stone in South...

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Crystal Quartz 8x10-12x14mm Faceted Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Crystal Quartz is a naturally occurring clear and colorless Quartz. It is a crystalline form of Quartz said to have many divine properties includin...

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Crystal Quartz 4-9mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch

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Crystal Quartz is a naturally occurring clear and colorless Quartz. It is a crystalline form of Quartz said to have many divine properties includin...

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Green Lodalite Quartz 14-16x28mm Nugget Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Green Lodolite is Quartz with inclusions of sand. These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens....

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K2 Rough Tumble 5x7-8x10mm Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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K2 is a stone recently discovered in the foothills of the mountain for which it is named, K2, in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan. It is a ...

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About this cut

Pebble & Nugget bead shape diagram
Cut name
Pebble & Nugget
Drill style
Drilled (irregular axis)
Typical sizes
8mm7mm10mm7x9-8x10mm8x10-9x13mm7x8mm9x11-10x14mm6mm
Stones in this cut
TurquoiseAmethystQuartzOpalAgateAquamarineCitrineRose QuartzTourmalineMixed GemstoneCrystal QuartzLabradorite
Common uses
organic single-strand necklacesmulti-strand layering braceletsknotted silk and cord designsleather and waxed-cord piecesstatement focal strandsmixed-stone earth-tone designs
Related cuts
Chip, Free Form
Design notes
Pebble and nugget cuts trade calibration for character — each bead varies, so the strand carries movement and a hand-finished feel that smooth round or faceted cuts can't match. Plan bead count loosely (size ranges are nominal, not strict), and lean into the variation rather than trying to match beads exactly. They pair well with hand-forged metal, leather, and knotted silk; for contrast, alternate with small calibrated rounds or rondelles as spacers to reset the visual rhythm.

Frequently asked questions

  • What is a pebble or nugget bead?
    Pebble and nugget beads are free-form, organically shaped beads — usually tumbled or lightly polished rather than cut to a strict geometric profile. Each bead varies in outline, thickness, and surface, so a strand reads as a row of related-but-individual shapes instead of matched units. Pebbles tend to be flatter and rounder in silhouette; nuggets are chunkier and more irregular, often with faceted or rough-hewn faces. Both are center-drilled through the longest practical axis for stringing. Because the shape isn't calibrated, expect bead count per strand to vary even within a listed size range.
  • What sizes does Dakota stock in pebble and nugget?
    The most stocked size is 8mm (55 products), followed by 7mm (53), 10mm (35), and 6mm (10) for the more rounded pebble forms. Irregular nugget ranges are also well-represented: 7x9–8x10mm (31), 8x10–9x13mm (28), 7x8mm (23), and larger 9x11–10x14mm (13). Because pebbles and nuggets are free-form, listed sizes are nominal ranges rather than tight calibrations — individual beads within a strand will fall inside the range but won't be identical. If you need a specific narrower window for a design, check the listing or ask before buying.
  • What stones come in pebble or nugget cut?
    Dakota carries 380 active SKUs in this cut. The deepest stock is Turquoise (83 products), where nugget is one of the most traditional cuts. Other well-stocked options include Amethyst (24), Quartz (21), Opal (16), Agate (13), Aquamarine (12), Citrine (12), Rose Quartz (11), Tourmaline (11), and Mixed Gemstone strands (10). Treatment, stabilization, and origin vary by stone — Turquoise pebbles in particular are often stabilized — and that detail should be disclosed. Ask before buying if it isn't specified.
  • What jewelry designs work best with pebble and nugget beads?
    Pebble and nugget beads suit designs where organic texture is the point: single-strand necklaces with a clasp focal, multi-strand bracelets, knotted silk pieces, and earth-tone layering strands. Because the beads vary, they pair naturally with hand-fabricated metalwork, leather, and waxed cord — anything that complements an unfussy, hand-finished aesthetic. They're a strong choice when you want gemstone presence without the formality of faceted or round-calibrated cuts. For uniform-look designs (tennis-style bracelets, matched eternity strands), use round or faceted round instead.
  • How is a pebble different from a nugget?
    Both are free-form, but the silhouette and surface differ. Pebbles are typically tumble-polished into smooth, rounded, somewhat flattened shapes — closer to a river stone in profile, often used for understated organic strands. Nuggets are chunkier and more dimensional, with more pronounced facets, ridges, or rough-finished faces; they read as a larger statement bead at the same nominal size. Dakota lists both under this shape family because they share the same drill convention and the same free-form sizing logic, but the look on the strand is distinct — check product photos when matching to an existing design.