Darwin Glass Dendrites but have been in the

but have been in the ground for a very long time

Good piece to cut stones for jewellery making

the bail is larger to accommodate various necklace choices

The three star sapphires are from Ratnapura

This is a great specimen mined in the 1070's/80's this piece comes from an old collection

Darwin Glass Dendrites but have been in theThe day it rained glass. Around 800 thousand years ago a large nickel iron meteorite that was once part of the core of an ancient planet slammed into the isolated west coast of Tasmania south of Queenstown, forming a large impact crater. This big old lump of space rock was travelling at an estimated 22 thousand kilometers per second. Before it had even hit the ground the heat and pressure waves generated from its passage through the Earths atmosphere