White Cliffs Opal Pineapple

370g

88x80x60mm

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Info on opal pineapples:
Opal Pineapples [Ikaite-Calcite-Opal] are one of the rarest mineral specimens on earth, with only a small number being unearthed whole and intact.

Opal Pineapples formed around 120 millions years ago under frozen conditions. Beginning as a hydrous mineral called Ikaite, as temperatures rise to around 4 degrees Celsius, the water is released leaving a Calcified webbing. Elsewhere it is re-calcified to form what’s know as a Glendonite, however in White Cliffs it is then later again replaced during the opal forming event [40mya], to become known today as the Opal Pineapple.
This process means that Opal Pineapples are in fact the fossil of a mineral and known as a double pseudomorph.