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Nebula Stone
A Unique New Discovery
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“It is unlike anything any of us
have ever seen”
“I cannot find anything like it in the literature.”
“This rock is obviously something New or at least Unusual.”
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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"Your specimen is nephrite, a variety of jade. To determine
this I looked at a thin section. What makes it unusual is the fact
that it has orbicular structure. “Orbicular” implies that the rock
contains “concentric shells of different texture and/or mineralogy
about a central core.”
...and afterwards by phone they said their conclusion of Nephrite was in error and then said “We have never seen this type stone and cannot figure out what it is and where it came from.”
National Museum of Natural History
Rock and Ore
Collection
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"Jadeite, a
member of the pyroxene group has the formula: (NA, AL, FE) SI2 06.
This is a much better fit to your X-ray energy dispersive analysis (EDX)
results.
In conclusion I think it is Jadeite, and perhaps the special version
Chloromelanite."
Douglass minerals
Retired mineralogical researcher UCLA.
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"It is a fresh and Unusual
alkalik volcanic rock predominantly composed of the four minerals
Quartz, Anorthoclase,
Riebeckite and Aegirine. The light green spherules
you see in the stone composed of radiating
fibers are Riebeckite needles mantled with fine grained Aegirine. The
darker matrix is richer in Riebeckite and also contains
more Quartz.”
Dr.
Sid Williams
Consulting Petrographer. Globo De Plomo
Co-Author of Mineralogy of Arizona
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Is It Just Lovely and Mesmerizing, or Mystical Too?
"You may have seen a new lapidary material being offered for sale recently. It's called "Nebula StoneTM," and is a dark-green, nearly black, shiny material with fascinating, light-green, swirling orbicules scattered through the dark matrix. These inclusions make the rock look like the night sky viewed through a telescope, wherein you see galaxies, nebulae and individual stars scattered against a dark background- hence, the name Nebula Stone."
"What makes Nebula Stone
so unusual is that it has been analyzed by several noted scientists without
anyone coming up with a definitive answer as to what type of rock it actually
is. Using a variety of recognized techniques, scientists have studied the rock
carefully, yet cannot come to a final, similar conclusion."
"It is highly regarded as an energy stone and healing stone by people
who are metaphysically attuned."