It's Raining Diamonds on Saturn These earrings feature Herkimer diamonds with anthraxolite inclusions. Each pair will differ slightly. I like to graduate the stones by size and color: bigger, top crystals tend to be more included and darker.
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Dimensions: Overall Lengths: about 2.5 in
About the name: Scientists predict that the pressure on Saturn is so great that it would turn the sooth, formed in the top levels of the planet's atmosphere, into diamonds by the time the reach the surface. (Documentary about Solar System on NOVA)
Herkimer diamonds are not diamonds of course but a kind of double terminated quartz crystals that forms in pockets of air deep in the rock. It was first discovered in Herkimer in New York and that's how it got its name. You can visit mines in the area to try your luck in finding Herkimer diamonds.
Anthraxolite is the black mineral often found in the form of inclusions in quartz. The mineral comes from the organic material trapped in quartz for millions of years. I like to think that these Herkimer diamonds with anthraxolite inclusions are geological terrariums.
