Black & Gold Marble, Las Bela area, Balochistan, Pakistan.
The Black is limestone cut by iron stained Limonite (gold) and calcite veins (white). These limestones were formed in the 240 million year old Tethys Sea and metamorphosed into marbles.

4 large jars sold as a set:  $200

smallest jar sold

Faceted Quartz crystals:
3 points in back 6 1/2 inch $60, 12 inch $140, 19 inch $450.  Rutilated smoky quartz $75, rutilated point $400, green phantom point $150, do decahedron $40

Fossiliferous Limestone, Balochistan Pakistan. These Late Mesozoic marine fossils, 240 million years old, lived in the Tethys sea, that once extended from Spain to southeast Asia. The Mediterranean sea is but a shrunken remnant of this once great sea. The matrix that cements the fossils together is fragments of other fossils broken up in the surf prior to its lithification into limestone. The circular fossils with internal radiating dividers are corral. The chambered fossils are snails. The arcuate fossils are the cross-sections of clams

Fossiliferous Limestone

Black bear, Picasso marble from central Utah, $380.
12.5 inches from nose to rump.
Pink bear, SOLD

Obelisk: Black and Gold $20, Red Zebra $40,
middle size sold out.

Onyx from Balochistan, Pakistan is the product of millennia of slow precipitation of calcite crystals. In this geologic process, molecules of calcium carbonate are dissolved and carried in underground water. Eventually the carbonate reaches a place where circumstances allow the minerals to come out of solution. Where pure calcite crystals form the onyx is white or translucent. This colorful banded onyx is the cold water deposition of calcite saturated with iron in the oxidized (red) and reduced (green) states.

Trays:  
9.5 inch x 4 inch $20
11 inch x 7 inch  $40

bowls and jars sold out.