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Solar System

Solar System

Posted by Risedesigns on 10/15/2009
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All new Piece.. spent about 18 hours working on this one.

Hope you enjoy!

Thanks to Miracle Mineral for all the specimens minus the rhodochrosite!

Sterling, fine silvers, 14/20 gold fill

(1) Rhodochrosite crystal (Argentina)
(1) Opal (Ethiopia)
(1) Black Star Diopside
(1) Moonstone Cab
(1) Sapphire (Sri Lanka)
(1)Alexandrite (Brazil)
(2) Spessartine Garnets (Nigeria)
(2) Spinels 1 pink, 1 purple (Luc Yen Vietnam)
(1) Red spinel (Burma)

2.0" long x 1.35" wide

Check the color-change of the Alexandrite in pic #3 as well as the 4-ray asterism in the star diopside! Alexandrite is bluish green in daylight/daylight equivalent lighting, and pink/red in incandescent light.

SOLD

BCgem22@gmail.com

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Risedesigns
Rise Up- Innovative jewelry design. Not everything in this gallery is available for purchase. To view my current available work, please visit my ETSY page- http://www.etsy.com/shop/Bcgem22 Please direct all questions to my email at BCGem22@gmail.com Artist Benjamin Claus has deep love and knowledge for rough precious and semi-precious gemstones. He is also a Graduate Gemologist and Accredited Jewelry Professional from the Gemological Institute of America. Please don't hesitate to email me about available work, or to order custom jewelry. Thanks for taking the time to view my work.

http://www.riseupjewelrydesigns.com





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