About the product:

💎 Name/ Type: Ammolite Cabochon

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: Canada

📐 Dimensions:

• 7 millimeters x 3 x 2
• 9 millimeters x 4 x 2 

⚖️ Weight : Approximately 1 gram

🔷 Shape:  Oval and Marquise

✨ Colors/ Clarity: Multicolored and shiny

🔬 Treatment: None

📜 Certificate: Zen Curiosity

🎁 Ideal for gifting or treating yourself!

💍 Suggested use:

Pendant mounting (bezel set, copper/silver wire, or glued to a base)

Handmade jewelry: Perfect base for spiritual or symbolic creations

Collectible item: Displayed on a stand to highlight reflections

Personal talisman: Associated with energy protection and intuition

🔮 Properties and other information

⚠️ These effects are not scientifically proven and never replace medical treatment.

Today in lithotherapy, these properties are still attributed to the opal.

It is said to calm and soothe, promote love and tenderness, and improve the romantic life of Geminis and Aquarians.

It is said to open the mind to spiritual life and restore vitality to tired individuals.

Ammolites can be almost any color you can imagine and often all on the same gemstone.

Green and red are the most common colors while blue and purple are rarer occurrences.

The most valuable ammolites display bright colors in two or three shades, each color having good coverage of the gemstone's surface.

The colors should be visible when you turn the stone in all directions and should be described as bright, luminous, shiny, reflective, or dazzling.

What causes the color of ammolites?

Ammolites are composed of a variety of chemicals, including aluminum, chromium, copper, and iron, but unlike other gemstones, this does not cause the wide range of colors they display.

The color is caused by interference, similar to what you have probably seen in soap bubbles or oil in a puddle of water.

The surface of the ammolite reflects a variety of beautiful colors when illuminated by natural or artificial light.

The color it shows depends on the thickness of the ammolite - we are talking about thicknesses of just a few microns, but this has a huge effect on the colors we see.

Thinner surfaces have a bit more distance to travel than slightly thicker layers, plus the light waves from these different depths interfere with each other, producing all the different colors displayed.

 Thicker layers produce reds and greens and are more durable, while thinner layers highlight blues and purples and are more delicate and prone to breaking, making them less common and more valuable.

Each color of the ammolite represents a different layer of the gem material.