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The pendant is chalcopyrite from the Volga river valley in Russia. It's about 2.5" wide. The stone is almosr surreal, it's completely natural and it almost looks like sequins. The setting is bronze and it has marvelous touches of copper that match one of the colors in the stone. (Not as obvious in photo.)


From the collection of Bill Laubenheimer.

I been working on the design for the brilliant blue Ray Mine silica with druze crystals and I'm really pleased with it. It's one of those stones that is so stunning that the design work has to simultaneously reflect it and  also aesthetically speak strongly for itself. It's challenging in a good way!

And most of the rings are also cast. Half of them still need to be polished and all of them need to be set.  I'm also polishing a group of new pendants,

I'm going to be doing some interesting things with a group of opal discs I got a while ago.

And I'm looking forward to getting the new stones for World Fantasy.

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