We have run out of stock for this item.
*Note: Please make sure to right-click and print (or save) ID card located in the photo gallery for your records*
A sphere of our very gemmy green sodalite (hackmanite) material. This gem sodalite is bright under all wavelengths, midwave, shortwave and longwave with incredible tenebrescence under both shortwave and longwave. The tenebrescence covers nearly 90% of the sphere. You won’t find many Greenland sodalite spheres such as this one on the market.
What is tenebrescence? This is the process when the sodalite on this piece changes color after exposure to UV (shortwave or longwave), darkening to a grape purple (almost black) as shown in the GIF below - a unique hue compared to other Greenland sodalites. Under longwave the bright orange fluorescence is unmistakable.
A major component of rock collecting (for us) is simply getting out in nature. A buddy dragged us out to a very remote area here in middle Tennessee to hunt for fluorescent green agate. Since we consider ourselves pure "Glow Hounds" we weren't anticipating any glow rocks, just the beauty of the area, but we brought our UV lights anyway.
