Petroleum Included Garden Quartz Sphere, Brazil
Petroleum Included Garden Quartz Sphere, Brazil
Description
A remarkable petroleum-included garden quartz sphere from Brazil that holds an entire landscape inside: a hazy green-grey orb of chlorite hangs like a sun over rugged ridges of deep red-brown iron minerals, with drifts of cream, gold, and rose filling the valley between. Wisps of golden rutile and misty veils give the scene atmosphere, and the polished sphere acts as a lens, shifting the view with every turn. Then the hidden feature — under UV light, the trapped petroleum inclusions glow an electric blue, transforming the piece entirely.
Garden quartz, or lodolite, forms in Brazil's hydrothermal veins when minerals like chlorite, feldspar, and iron oxides settle on a growing quartz crystal and are then sealed inside by later growth, preserving each layer as a suspended scene. Petroleum quartz adds another chapter: droplets of natural crude oil and hydrocarbons became trapped in tiny cavities as the crystal formed, and it's these fluids that fluoresce vivid blue under longwave UV. Finding both in one sphere: a scenic garden and glowing petroleum makes this an unusual crossover piece for collectors.
Garden quartz is known as a stone of meditation and inner journeying, its miniature worlds used as a focus for visualization and manifestation. The petroleum inclusions add associations with transformation and hidden light. What looks earthbound by day glows by night.
You will receive the exact sphere photographed.
Details
- Mineral: Quartz with chlorite, iron oxide, and petroleum inclusions
- Origin: Brazil
- Size: approx. 2.5 in diameter
- Weight: 360 g (12.7 oz)
- Finish: Polished sphere
- Special feature: Petroleum inclusions fluoresce blue under longwave UV
- Condition: Natural inclusions and veils consistent with formation
Note
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