Gem Dinosaur Bone Biopsy Beads on Mother of Pearl

Hi y'all!  More one of a kinds from DVHdesigns!!! I call this a "dinosaur bone biopsy"! While actual fossilized dinosaur bone isn't as rare as people think, to find specimens where the cells of the marrow have been replaced by clear chalcedony quartz IS RARE. To make this I sliced a gemmy piece of dinosaur bone very thin, then attached it to a mother of pearl backing using a high grade lapidary cement. Then I cut and polished the dinosaur bone even thinner so that it's really only 1 to 2 cells thick. The light passes through the clear quartz in the cells and bounces off the mother of pearl to create a beautiful, glowing effect. M
This one measures 34x27x4mm with one 1.5mm drill hole. An oval shape with very high polished finish. This piece is drilled through the mother of pearl and has a relatively flat back so that a competent jeweler could bezel set it as a cabochon if one doesn't want to string it. 


A very rare and unusual piece. This material is from the area around the border of Colorado & Utah. I made 12 of these and sold half of them to private collectors before I even got them listed in my online store! I only have enough of this quality material to make 4 more of these rarities and I WILL keep one for myself!

Here is one that is more shield shaped, along with a picture of the back so that you can see how some are drilled (others are flat backed and have the drill hole through the first layer of MOP)




Here's another one, and here are two smaller ones I made....
Below I list some of the claimed metaphysical properties of dinosaur bone.

Dinosaur bone has some interesting metaphysical properties, which I will list here. For more geological information on dinosaur bone refer to the information below the image. In her book, Love Is In the Earth, Melody says that, "use of the dinosaur bone can help to diminish the barriers separating the ancient ones and their inherent knowledge from the modern representatives of the human kingdom. It can open avenues of communication and insight, assisting one in understanding the earth changes, the role of evolution, and the issues of dominance and endurance in all situations. It stimulates the adventuresome nature, helping one to proceed from one point to another with both the faith and the strength to understand and to attain the ultimate value of a situation. The dinosaur bone has been used to facilitate mind travel, providing for a stabilizing force to ground the user while allowing the mind to wander toward a pre-set goal."

The rings-things web site has a great gemstone information index that I recommend. The guy who runs it seems real honest and knows a lot. I got this info from his site, "The stone people today call dinosaur bone is more descriptively known as silicified (transformed into silica) fossil of dinosaur bone. The substance is a pseudomorph, the atom-by-atom replacement of one mineral for another without changing the original mineral's external appearance. In this case, bone has been replaced by chalcedony. Although fossilized dinosaur bones are found in many places around the world, from Argentina to Mongolia to Madagascar, the highly silicified and beautifully colored dinosaur remains sometimes called "gem bone" is almost exclusively found in a relatively small area in the U.S.A. called the Colorado Plateau. Most of the areas that produce quality bone are in Colorado and Utah. During the dinosaur period, this was an area that included both land and water, with swamps, lakes and shallow oceans bordered by continental shelf, rising into ancient mountains. The climate changed over time, growing more arid and increasing in volcanic activity. Silica-rich volcanic sediments were then carried by the rivers and deposited as the seas retreated. This environment proved ideal for the burial and subsequent preservation of countless dinosaur remains. "
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