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Moldavite - Portions of Maldek..

Moldavite stone is cherished for its extraterrestrial connection and its tie to earth, making it the best of both worlds. 

Moldavite is a unique stone formed from a rare occurrence which is why it’s such a hot commodity. There is no other stone like it, and on top of that, the energy of Moldavite stone is potent. 

Moldavite stone is different than your average crystal. It’s not even considered a “crystal” by technical terms, it’s something called a Tektite. The formal definition of a Tektite is “a small glassy object, believed to have formed from molten debris in meteorite impacts and scattered throughout the air”. 

Your average crystal such as Clear Quartz is formed from heat and pressure from the Earth’s crust and can take millions of years to form. Of course, there are other ways these beauties can form, but that is the most natural way. 

Moldavite, on the other hand, formed because of a meteorite impact, like mentioned above. This impact is a one-time occurrence meaning when all the Moldavite is sold, that is it. No more to replace it. 

Unlike other stones that are formed all over the globe, Moldavite is only found in one place in the entire world. Real Moldavite comes from the Czech Republic. It’s only found in the Moldau River Valley, which is about a 40 square mile area. 

Anyone who has Moldavite for sale should be able to confirm this origin, and it’s a big red flag if the seller says it’s from any other place.

 

Because of Moldavite’s glass-like nature, it can be easy to fake or replicate. The good news is the fakes are easy to spot if you know what real Moldavite looks like. A true piece of this Tektite will range from an olive-green color to varying hues of dark-green; it can also range from pale to translucent. 

Another sign of real Moldavite is the gas bubbles that were trapped inside the stone when it was forming. When Moldavite is fake or replicated with glass, it’s very hard to mimic these bubbles. 

Another way to tell if your Moldavite is genuine or fake is the size of the piece. Most pieces of Moldavite are small, and the larger pieces have a pretty hefty price tag on them. Moldavite is a rare stone; therefore, it will be priced higher than your average crystal. Price is another dead giveaway to the realness of the Moldavite for sale. 

Most fake pieces of Moldavite are made with molds, and sometimes you can see the seam of the molds around the stone. Also, Moldavite that is fake will look more like glass and have a shiny finish.

Egyptian Glass

RESEARCHERS believe the intense impact of a meteorite 29 million years ago may be what formed a bizarre yellow glass that is found only in a certain spot of the Great Sand Sea Desert.

The yellow glass can only be found scattered in a particular part of the desert in southeast Libya and southwestern parts of Egypt.

The glass was first brought to light in a scientific paper in 1933 as silica glass from the Libyan Desert.

It caught the researcher’s attention early on due to its rarity and mystery.

Other natural glasses can be found on Earth but nothing has had such high levels of silica as the yellow glass.

The Libyan desert glass has also been cherished by mineral collectors for the same reasons for decades.

The yellow glass was also found attached to a pendant that was inside Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb proving its importance during that time as well.

The pendant includes extremely prominent symbols from Egyptian times like the Eye of Ra and the wings of Isis – the yellow glass sits right in the middle of the wings.

The paper is titled: Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence for an extremely high-pressure-temperature impact event from nanostructural study.

The advanced microscopy technology allowed the researchers to see super small minerals called zirconium oxide (ZrO₂).

The pressure and temperature needed to create Zirconium oxide can only be formed in certain conditions.

It can only be obtained in the Earth's crust by a meteorite impact or the explosion of an atomic bomb, the researchers explained.

The researchers highly believe it was an extraterrestrial impact that hit the ground 29 million years ago at such intense pressure to create the glass.

However, to ultimately prove the findings to be correct, the researchers need to find the parental crater where the meteorite hit the Earth's surface.

They believe it might possibly be eroded, deformed, or covered by sand.

The origin of the yellow glass has remained a mystery for almost a century, but new advanced microscopy technology has allowed researchers to get closer to an answer.

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Yes this is real..Naica gypsum caves in Mexico

https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/nature-travel/cave-mexi...

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Thanks for all the beautiful crystals, much appreciated

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Just so you know Asana crystals uses AI to create some of her crystal images on the website..so they arnt real crystals but inspirations based of some of them..pretty as they may be..one has to be careful these days with AI,soon people wont know whats real and whats not..

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Thought so but they are beautiful.  I posted the cathedral image over on TFOL on haiku chain, it was quite a hit with the writers there.  I also found a couple of images they'd posted overnight which was what we'd talked about on your blog...I'd posted a spiders web, so I'll share here

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here are several of my crystals, had to hunt them down on Anewgaia site where I used to post them

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Natural Pink Colour Mountain Shape Kunzite Crystal from Afghanistan Mine.

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Red rutile quartz cluster from Brazil

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Aquamarine Crystal from Northern area of Pakistan

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Pink Quartz Geode