Pietersite Pendant

African pietersite and 925 Sterling Silver Pendant from seasoned lapidary artist Vaughn Nagel.

Width: 38mm

Length: 40mm

Pietersite, also called "eagle's eye," was named in honor of Sid Pieters who discovered it in 1962 in Namibia, Africa. Pietersite is a trade name for a dark blue-grey breccia aggregate made up mainly of hawk's eye and tigereye. It is a variety of chalcedony (itself a variety of quartz) with embedded fibers of amphibole minerals in varying degrees of alteration. The fibers cause a blue chatoyancy like that seen in tigereye

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