Rainbow Obsidian Heart

Item Description

A good representative example of polished Rainbow Obsidian from the La Revoltosa Mine in southwestern Mexico. These specimens are highly prized in the lapidary industry for their superior consistent quality, and this piece would make a great addition to any collection of carvings or various lapidary items. This is honestly some of the best quality Obsidian you'll find on the market in terms of purity, and yet only a small percentage of these stones contains the highly desirable rainbow banding patterns, which are just gorgeous when polished. You'll see this material cut/carved and polished into all sorts of shapes and figures, but some of the most popular and well-known examples are the beautiful heart-shaped carvings like this stone. This piece features dark iridescent colored bands of gold/green and purple which shimmer in reflected light. You need a good light source to best see the colors and the pattern, either a strong indoor bulb or sunlight. The piece only shows the banding on the front, the back is completely black. For those who are unfamiliar, Obsidian is natural volcanic glass, formed at the end of volcanic activity in an area where the remaining silica quickly cools near the surface. Item weight is 68.5 grams.