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Tiny Staurolite Sphere with Carved Wooden Stand

Tiny Staurolite Sphere with Carved Wooden Stand

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This is a tiny Staurolite sphere it measures almost an inch in diameter and weighs 25 grams. It comes with it's own carved wooden stand. Staurolite is best known for its distinctive, cross-shaped penetration twins, where two rectangular crystals intersect each other to form a perfect cross. also called Fairy Crosses. Staurolite is a silicate mineral mainly known for its crystal formation. The occasionally used name “Fairy Cross” is quite accurate, as the twinned crystals often form at distinct right angles ot each other. This creates a cross that can be seen in most specimens of the mineral.

Staurolite itself is a simple mineral. It has a hardness of 7.0 on the Moh’s scale and is usually a reddish-brown to black color depending on the location and the individual crystals. As a metamorphic material, it’s often found alongside stones like almandine garnets and kyanite. It usually occurs in mica.Most staurolite crystals are relatively small and they may not make the impression of being a cross at those sizes. Instead, you’ll simply have a mass that looks like two crystals are fused together at close to a right angle.

In addition to the normal cruciform crystals, six-rayed “stars” are also found on rare occasions. These are highly prized, especially if they’re well formed and the crystals are longer.

Staurolite is a red-to-black crystalline silicate mineral that forms in pairs of prismatic crystals with right angles. The name Fairy Cross seems apt, especially if you have a great example of the mineral

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