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Gorgeous Blue Agates

This Week's Featured Stone

Australian Brecciated Mookaite

IJ350-1153599826

48mm x 22mm x 7mm

40 carat
Designer Shape

Mohs Hardness 7

Treatments None

One Only -Drilled

$ 9.55 USD

New Cabs and Work in Progress

 There is a lot of grinding going on:

Chatoyant Pietersite

Available on Gallery Two at Overstocked with Rocks

Sid Pieters discovered Pietersite in Namibia in 1962. He registered the find in Britain and published his discovery in 1964, and the stone was named in his honor. Though many believed that Pietersite could be found only in Namibia, in 1993 a similar stone was discovered in China's Hunan province.

Pietersite is "brecciated," an Italian word that means a combination of minerals and rock held together by a fine-grained sediment; in Pietersite that "sediment" is quartz.

Any white spots seen in Pietersite is Quartz, you could say that quartz is the host. Blue is the favorite of all the colors seen in Pietersite and comes from Namibia, Africa. Browns, golds and reds are also found and as I understand come from China.

 

Learning about Wire Wrapped Cabochons

Here is a step by step way to wire wrap a cabochon. Good pictures for new wire wrappers!

What makes the wrapped gem unique is what you do with the top bundle of wires.

Go Here for free tutorial

Great Color in the New Pendant/Focal Beads Listed.

Some Great New Pendant Beads for you in Galley 5!

Overstocked with Rocks, Cabochons and Focal Beads

Rhodonite Earring Pairs and Pendant Beads

I just love The Red in these Pendant Beads

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Druzy Girls

Golden Agate Druzy

Only Two Left

High Polished Druzy

Blue Diamonds

The sparkle of druzy is amazing. The formation of the tiny crystals occurs after molten rock quickly cools, trapping gas within it as it solidifies. Gasses cause crevices and cavities in the cooling rock. Nutrient-rich groundwater later flows through these gaps and crevices, depositing layer after layer of minerals which crystallize on top of each other so the resulting encrustation is called druzy The process takes a few hundred or even a few thousand years.

You find Druzy in High-end Jewelry.

Thanks to all the GotRocks Customers!

Only one more order to pack and ship from this weekend surge. Wow, thank you everyone for your purchases. You all helped me out greatly because my dogs Vet bill topped $500.00 in surgical cost. (We are fine now)  Rena is my new Oprah!!

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Loving Labradorite

Labradorite is truly a fascinatingly beautiful mineral. Its a mineral whose charm is not fully noticed and may be overlooked if not viewed from the proper position. Generally a dull, dark looking mineral with no special virtue until the colorful shiller is observed glowing on the surface. Labradorite can produce a colorful play of light across cleavage planes and in sliced sections called labradorescence. The usually intense colors range from the typical blues and violets through greens, yellows and oranges. Some rare specimens display all these colors simultaneously.


The color display is from lamellar intergrowths inside the crystal. These intergrowths result from compatible chemistries at high temperatures becoming incompatible at lower temperatures and thus a separating and layering of these two phases. The resulting color effect is caused by a ray of light entering a layer and being refracted back and forth by deeper layers. This refracted ray is slowed by the extra travel through the layers and mixes with other rays to produce a light ray coming out that has a different wavelength than when it went in. The wavelength could correspond to the wavelength of a particular color, such as blue. The effect depends on the thickness and orientation of the layers. If the layers are too thick or too thin no color shiller is seen. The labradorescence is truly a one of a kind mineralogical experience and must be observed in person in order to truly appreciate its beauty.



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