Thulite Pendant

Description

I figured it was about time I put some Thulite pendants on the website! I have been selling them in Takaka up till now.

What is Thulite you may well ask. Thulite is a manganese rich variety of zoisite which gives it the pink colour. It forms in ultramafic conditions with the likes of serpentine and nephrite jade.

I have been lucky over my collecting years to find a lot of it, all of which comes from the top of the south Is. Considering the rarity of it I think that is a bit of an achievement on my part!

This stunning pendant has a bright pink colour with some white and black markings. Here I think the white may be a felspar incusion and the black will be Manganese oxide.

This piece of stone is a beautiful example of what we have in the top of the south!

This piece is 6.5cm x 3.2cm.