Natural Moldavite - Exceptional rough piece with an...

This impressive Moldavite displays an exceptionally strong green color, ranging from deep forest and olive green to bright emerald green hues depending on the light. Especially under brighter illumination, the piece reveals its pronounced translucency and develops a fascinating inner depth. A distinctive feature is the highly textured surface. Numerous rounded, interlocking depressions and elevations give the Moldavite a strikingly plastically layered texture. Alongside, there are glassy-looking areas with typical flow and fracture structures. In backlighting, these different structures become especially clear, creating a lively interplay of bright, almost transparent sections and intensely saturated green zones. Moldavite belongs to the group of tektites and formed about 15 million years ago as a result of the massive meteorite impact that created the Ries crater in southern Germany. The enormous energy released during the impact melted earthly rock material and ejected it over great distances. While flying through the atmosphere, the melt cooled and solidified into the characteristic green natural glass known today as Moldavite. This piece comes from the Czech Republic, the classic find area for Moldavite. Specimens with strong green color, good light transmission, and clearly pronounced surface structure are especially sought after by collectors. Due to the limited mining areas and finite natural occurrences, high-quality Moldavite also holds a special status among tektites and collectible minerals. Moldavite also enjoys an extraordinary reputation metaphysically. Traditionally, it is regarded as a stone for profound change, expanded consciousness, and personal development. It is attributed with particularly intense energy that is said to help dissolve entrenched patterns and open new perspectives. A characterful natural Moldavite rough piece, especially notable for its unusually plastically structured surface, its intense green color, and its impressive effect when viewed against the light. Our shipping costs have been checked and approved by Catawiki. We use an external shipping company that handles the final inspection, pickup, packing, and shipping; thereby these shipping costs arise. The buyer bears all possible import and export costs, duties, shipping costs, etc.. See also our other items and shipping costs; pickup costs saved.. In some of the pictures the stone has been backlit to show you the color of the stone. In some stones we have held a light underneath the stone to better show the color of the pieces. And color deviations, etc., may occur because every computer, monitor, and phone can display colors with different qualities.

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