1 1/2″ Obsidian Teardrops! The Lines In These Are Stunning And Match Perfectly!

1/2″ Sodalite with aegririne. This material is super cool! The black parts (the aegririne) has a silver shine almost like labradorite. The flash isn’t exactly the same but it’s there!

Most of those fish come from the Green River formation in Wyoming - a desert lake that would fill and dry up. Some Mosasaur teeth in the final photo.

Garnet, wrapped in a nest of asbestos

Also known as The king of garnets, Demantoid or Andradites are the most expensive of the family, and the gemmier versions practically glow thanks to their unique gemmological properties. They are different to their green cousin Tsavorite (http://bit.ly/1ygBzM5), and vary from a yellowish or brownish green to a deep hue as fine as the best emeralds. They are also known sometimes as Urals emerald, since they were first discovered there in 1868. So far, all the deposits found result from one flavour or another of metamorphism.

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Locket, 1571-78, England.

Check out this other pair of eyelets we got from @anatometalinc recently! These are ¾". #Anatometal #CZ #Bling #IowaCity (at Release Body Modification)

3/4″ Imperial jasper set!

Lago Pehoe, Patagonia, Chile | by danielpivnick

Malachite tazza (cup), a wedding gift to the Infante Luisa of Spain from Tsar Nicholas I - Imperial Lapidary Workshop, Peterhof, 1846.