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This isn’t glitter.✨ It’s marcasite breaking itself apart while the stone was still forming. Before chalcedony hardens, it sits in the cavity as a silica gel. Slow, warm, mineral rich. While that gel was settling, the marcasite started doing what marcasite always does… cracking, shrinking, and falling into pieces. The gel flowed around every fragment and locked it in place. That’s why the metal looks brecciated because it literally collapsed during formation. Stones like this look cosmic for a r
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This isn’t glitter.✨ It’s marcasite breaking itself apart while the stone was still forming. Before chalcedony hardens, it sits in the cavity as a silica gel. Slow, warm, mineral rich. While that gel was settling, the marcasite started doing what marcasite always does… cracking, shrinking, and falling into pieces. The gel flowed around every fragment and locked it in place. That’s why the metal looks brecciated because it literally collapsed during formation. Stones like this look cosmic for a r
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Here's another crazy rock from Tillamook County, Oregon!!! It has some insane brecciated Jasper/Agate, it also has some awesome red and green Moss Agate with Pyrite sparkles throughout!! Not only that, the Agate in it is also Fluorescent, and phosphorescent. 😀 | Rock'N Oregon
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Here's another crazy rock from Tillamook County, Oregon!!! It has some insane brecciated Jasper/Agate, it also has some awesome red and green Moss Agate with Pyrite sparkles throughout!! Not only that, the Agate in it is also Fluorescent, and phosphorescent. 😀 | Rock'N Oregon
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