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Laguna Agate | Hypersthene Intarsia Cabochon

Laguna Agate | Hypersthene Intarsia Cabochon

$65.00 Regular Price
$48.75Sale Price

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Intarsia is the art of combining two or more different stones together and is something I'm starting to experiment with more and more. This is one of my experimental pieces. 

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"Hypersthene’s first mention in mineralogical literature appeared within French mineralogist René Just Haüy’s Traité de Minéralogie in 1801. The studied samples came from Labrador, Canada, the famous first source of labradorite.

However, German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner had also studied the stone and named it “paulite,” after the St. Paul island in Labrador. 

Because no other deposits had yet been discovered and Haüy believed hypersthene was an amphibole mineral, he dubbed it “labradorite hornblende.” 

The name “hypersthene” came from Haüy in 1804 when he realized it was a new mineral species. Eventually, more deposits would be uncovered outside of Canada."

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Laguna Agate is a well known, classic banded agate found in Chihuahua Mexico.

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