Description
Type of stone: Petrified Wood
Origin: Wandoan Queensland Australia
Approx Size: 65mm
Weight: 369 grams
This petrified wood was collected from a property near Wandoan. Wandoan is known for many varieties of petrified wood and colours.
Petrified wood is a fossilized wood where the original plant material has been replaced by minerals, typically silica and opal. This process involves groundwater with dissolved minerals that replace the wood’s cell structure, preserving the original shape and sometimes even cellular details of the original wood .
This can take a very short time or occur over a longer time period. In Victoria fence posts that were being replaced were found to be fossilized after less than 50 years.
The petrified wood can display a variety of colors due to the presence of other minerals such as iron.
Comes with free metal stand.
All our spheres are made here in Nanango Queensland Australia.
We start by drilling a core from a larger rock. We then drill the core 3 more times to get a rough sphere.
we then start grinding the sphere with a three head machine we made. We use finer and finer grit diamond pads and finally we polish with oxide on a felt pad. Depending on how hard the stone is it takes 3-5 hours to make each sphere.
Please Note
As all of our stones are natural there may be cracks, holes and other imperfections. All of our stones are natural and we don’t do any crack or void filling. We don’t use oils or waxes to enhance our stones. We polish our stones by using finer and finer diamond polishing pads followed by different types of polishing oxide.
We do our best to show the true nature of our stones. Different computers and phones display colours differently.
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