Enhydro - quartz rock crystal pendant - large bubble with yellowish sand, golden healer iron oxide - ID A0614

Super pendant with 1 large enhydro bubble in a cavity filled with a fascinating yellowish residue. There is a yellow -golden healer- in the back. We love the feel of this enhydro.

Approximate dimensions for the pendant 1.6 x 0.9 x 0.5 inches (40x24x13mm)
Approximate weight 142 carats / 28 grams / 1 oz
Origin: Brazil

Here is our personal assessment of this enhydro:
BUBBLE
Size (S, M, L, XL): Large
Movement (Limited, Good, Excellent): Good
CRYSTAL
Size (S, M, L, XL): Medium
Clarity (Limited, Fair, Good, Excellent): Fair
Cut/ Polish (Fair, Good, Excellent): Fair - Uneven, small open cavities
Note that this is our assessment and only an opinion. Please carefully check the video and the pictures to gauge if this enhydro is right for you. Of course, do not hesitate to ask us any questions and we’ll be glad to send you also any additional picture you may need. We want you to be happy with the enhydro you select! If you are looking for a perfect ingot, this one is not for you. We personally love the raw feel to it, but it is uneven and there are small open natural cavitiesl.

NOTE: The issue of fake and altered enhydros!
Rest reassured: we only sell GENUINE enhydros as we test every single one of them prior to listing them.
Based on our trips to mineral markets in Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, China etc…, while we regularly see man-made enhydros, they remain RARE and quite pricey due to the numerous and costly steps required to make one: drilling the crystal, filling with a liquid, sealing the opening with some sort of epoxy material, polishing to hide the alteration. That’s a lot of work, thus their high prices.
If you notice a surface reaching fracture on your crystal, it is most likely the result of the cutting and polishing process, but not an alteration. A simple visual inspection anyway will seldom show the alteration, as multiple tests with technical equipment is required.
In conclusion, avoid panicking if a “know-it-all” individual tells you your enhydro is fake. Unless they can show you the alteration under UV light or polariscope or microscope etc…., then they are alarming you for no reason. We perform all these tests on the enhydros we sell so that you don’t have to worry about your crystal!

ENHYDRO DEFINITION
Here is a simplified explanation of what is an “ENHYDRO”, these trapped bubbles in a liquid inside a crystal. Simply put, quartz typically forms in hot water (containing dissolved silica). As the crystal grows at different speeds, liquid can be trapped as the rest of the crystal continues to grow around it. As the crystal cools down, the trapped liquid then contracts and forms a vapor bubble. This is how “enhydros” form (scientist refers to these as “fluid inclusions”). The liquid can trap also other elements such as carbon, oil (petroleum trapped in quartz from Pakistan for example) etc... These are basically “geochemical time capsules” of the environment in which the crystal was growing. There are documented examples of fluid inclusions dating the early Precambrian (3 billion years old!).

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