4.7" Polished Vibrant Green Buddstone Bear - South Africa

Polished Vibrant Green Buddstone Bear - South Africa #311474

This is a really cool and extremely vibrant, 4.7" wide polished bear sculpted from bright green buddstone, collected in South Africa. The polish work on this specimen is second to none with none of the scuff marks or dull areas like those found on lesser quality material. The base has been cut flat so it stands up nicely on a hard surface.

Buddstone is a bright green variety of chalcedony that's prized for its durability and vibrant color. It's often used in jewelry and carvings.

Chalcedony is any microcrystalline variety of silica composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and mogánite: microcrystalline minerals have microscopic crystals that cannot be observed by the naked eye. Both quartz and mogánite have the same chemical formula SiO2 (silicon dioxide), but different crystal structures. When free from impurities, chalcedony is colorless and transparent. Depending on impurities present during formation, chalcedony can form in a wide variety of colors including red, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, white, and numerous hues in between. Chalcedony is quite hard at 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale: this matches its main component quartz, which is the benchmark mineral for the scale at 7.

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