Description
Type of stone: Banded Iron Jasper Haematite
Origin: Wittenoom Western Australia
Approx Size: 66mm
Weight: 484 grams
This banded iron sphere has smaller bans of jasper and haematite with a large section of haematite at one end..
Banded is thought to have formed when Iron oxides fell to the ocean floors as minerals like magnetite and hematite. The sediments accumulated in alternating bands on the ocean floors. These created the banded formations or BIF we now find.
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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