Description
Baltic amber has traveled trade routes since the Stone Age
sometimes sold as a “Pakistani diamond
the carver following the stone’s own color zoning so that no two pieces carry the same distribution of tone
The heart form is a long-standing shape in lapidary work
and East Africa
Peridot Palm Stone Jasper Baltic amber has traveled tradeThe green of deep mantle rock, held in the palmperidot is one of the few gems that forms below the crust. Peridot is the gem variety of olivine, a magnesium iron silicate ((Mg,Fe)2SiO4) that crystallizes in the upper mantle and reaches the surface through volcanic activity or in xenoliths carried by basaltic magma. Its vivid yellow green color is an intrinsic property of the iron in its crystal structurethe color is built into the mineral's chemistry