Charoite is an extremely rare stone from Russia. Charoite comes from the river Chara located in Siberia, Russia. Charoite. Charoite is a strong a very strong mineral and has a translucent lavender to purple color almost looking synthetic at times. This beautiful hand-made Charoite necklace is 100% natural and has sterling silver beads in between the perfectly round Chariote beads as well as a sterling silver clasp. This Charoite and pearl necklace is 20 inches in length and the size of the largest bead is 0.8" x 0.6". Charoite is very rare and extremely limited mineral and is on the verge of extinction due to over mining.