Ammolite Curio Pendant
An interesting Ammolite specimen showcasing the unique "dragonskin" phenomenon. I hand pick my ammolite specimens to ensure that each one has character and quality, and I picked this one for it's intensely interesting character, rather than it's flash.
This fossil is a stone that embodies mysteriousness.
This ammolite specimen does not flash brightly from every direction. Sometimes it looks like glossy, black obsidian. But when it does flash, it becomes a stained glass window of intense iridescence. It has flecks of firey orange surrounded by green, fading off into blue and indigo. Truly, a stone to gaze into and get lost in.
Set in fine silver, with the heavy sterling silver ring-bails I like for my curio pendants, so you can easily collect and mix and match them with your favorite chains. Comes with a complimentary 16" twisted nylon silk cord, although it is intended to go on it's wearer's favorite chains.
Curio pendants are conversation starters, miniature museums, and this one is definitely both of those things!
About the fossil: This specimen was mined by tribal members on the Blood reservation, near Calgary, in Alberta. Part of the Bearpaw Formation, a Cretacious-era deposit that was once a tropical, shallow inland sea-way. This region is now the Great Plains, but once it was a Caribbean blue, tropical wonderland of giant ammonites & Plesiosaurs. Ammolite mining is one of the major enterprises on the Blood reservation and helps maintain tribal sovereignty. As a personal principle, I am careful to always purchase specimens from Tribal sources rather than international mining companies outside of the reservation.