Mineral Spheres

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Bumble Bee Jasper Sphere #6141

Bumble Bee Jasper Sphere, 4.1 inches in diameter.  Not a true Jasper, Bumblebee is made up of many minerals including gypsum, sulfur and hematite in a volcani tuff matrix.   It comes from the fumaroles of Mount Papandayam  in West...

unknown sphere #6100

Unknown Sphere, 3 inches in diameter. This is part of a parcel of preforms and cubes I purchased.  Most of the lot were common Onyx that I will never work.  The original materials all came from the estate of a 95 year...

Picasso Marble Sphere #6048

Picasso Marble Sphere, 2.9 inches in diameter. Picasso Marble is named after Pablo Picassos abstract paintings.  It is really a calcium magnesium carbonate with the patterns created by iron oxides.  It is thought to facilitate...

onyx Sphere #6058

Onyx Sphere, 3.9 inches in diameter. Bright orange lightening strikes are in this amazing sphere.  I just love the patterns.  This is from a batch of preforms I purchased so I am unaware of the origin.  My bet it is from the Mayer,...

Honey Onyx Sphere # 6020

Honey Onyx Sphere, 4.1 inches in diameter. I found this partially completed sphere in a box that I was unpacking in the sphere room.  My best guess is that it is from Utah.  Just had to see it finished. The coloring of this material reminds...

Golden Amphibolite Sphere #5972

Golden Amphibolite Sphere, 3.3 inches in diameter.  Created by heat and pressure this metamorphic rock consists of hornblend and actinolite with little or no quartz.  It originates from the Abydos Pilbara region of Western Australia. To...

Australian Lepidolite Sphere #5828

Australian Lepidolite Sphere, 3 inches in diameter. Where else in the world would have a Lepidolite with schiller?  This sphere does.  Not being continuously purple, the flash you get from the Lepidolite between the quartz more than...

Golden Amphibolite Sphere #5808

Golden Amphibolite Sphere, Australia, 3.6 inches in diameter. Created by heat and pressure this metamorphic rock consists of hornblend and actinolite with little or no quartz.  It originates from the Abydos Pilbara region of Western...

Indonesian Petrified Palm #5566

Indonesian Petrified Palm Sphere, 3.4 inches in diameter. Indonesian Petrified Palm s a microchrystaline quartz formed by silica carried by underground water replaces cell structure after the palm trunks have been buried under hundred of yards of...

Indonesian Petrified Palm Sphere #5532

Indonesian Petrified Palm Sphere, 4.3 inches in diameter. Indonesian Petrified Palm s a microchrystaline quartz formed by silica carried by underground water replaces cell structure after the palm trunks have been buried under hundred of yards of...

Ballarat Marble Sphere #5325

Ballarat Marble Sphere, California, 3 inches in diameter. In this desolate are in the canyons of the Panamint range south of Death Valley lies the almost ghost town of Ballarat.  It has 1 residence.  To the south about a quarter...

Ballarat Sphere #5317

Ballarat Marble Sphere, California, 3.4 inches in diameter. In this desolate are in the canyons of the Panamint range south of Death Valley lies the almost ghost town of Ballarat.  It has 1 residence.  To the south about a...

Purple Sagenite Sphere #5300

Purple Sagenite Sphere, China, 2.9 inches in diameter. Don't ask me what it is, I do not know.  At first I thought it might be Fluorite but after trying different polishes, it just doesn't work up like any other of that material.  Now I am...

Redd Sage Sphere #5273

Red Sage Sphere, China, 2.9 inches in diameter. Another material that I picked up that is new on the market.  It may be red stromatolite.  The use is a highly silicated limestone.  Really made the saws sing when I was...

Purple Sagenite Sphere #5254

Purple Sagenite Sphere, China, 4.2 inches in diameter. Don't ask me what it is, I do not know.  At first I thought it might be Fluorite but after trying different polishes, it just doesn't work up like any other of that material.  Now I am...

Septarian Nodule Sphere #4660

Septarian Nodule Sphere, Utah, 2.8 inches in diameter. 50-70 million years ago, volcanic eruptions created the limestone mud balls that are the out surface of Sectarian nodules.  As time passed, decomposed sea shells drifted into the...