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Star Galaxy Gold knife block with a mud lobster

Star Galaxy Gold knife block with a mud lobster

Regular price €56.000,00 EUR
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Stopping places 10
Weight 10.68kg
Size Length 86 cm | Width 12 cm | Height 27.7 cm
Serial number TSSFO.003

Star Galaxy Gold knife block with a rare mud lobster

Fossil mud lobster in very rare museum quality. This 2 to 5 million year old lobster fossil is incredibly well preserved and above all complete, which increases its rarity value enormously. Mud lobsters belong to the Thalassina genus. The site is on an island in Indonesia. 5 million years ago they lived on the Asian mangrove coasts, where the crabs known as mud lobsters burrow up to 2 m deep into the mud, where they led a safe life in the protection of their caves. But a huge natural event with sedimentation avalanches led to the animals being quickly embedded, where they fossilized over time and the enormous pressure. The attachment of the lobster, with the Star Galaxy Gold, is gold-plated.

The Star Galaxy Gold from India exudes a sparkling and luxurious ambience. It is particularly impressive due to its gold and bronze-colored inclusions that sparkle on its deep black background. When polished, its full radiance comes into its own. The stone fits into any living environment that relies on strong contrasts. Simply elegant and timeless. The reflective minerals are bronzites embedded in a dark matrix. The Star Galaxy Gold is a gabbro and not granite. A gabbro is a fine-grained igneous rock that was formed deep in the earth's interior. It consists mainly of dark minerals such as pyroxene, hornblende and olives; quartz is absent or only occurs in trace amounts.

Description: Star Galaxy Gold

Type of rock: Gabbro

Age: Precambrian (covers the first 4 billion years of Earth’s history)

Rock group: Plutonic rock

Appearance: Deep black, brown, gold sparkling, medium grain

Location: Ongole/ Madras/ Andrea Pradesh, INDIA

Acid resistance: The stone is resistant to acid attacks within normal limits.

Technical data: Star Galaxy Gold

Bulk density: 2.83-2.95 t/m³

Compressive strength: 183.0-203.1 MPa

Bending strength: 19.1 MPa

Water absorption: 0.08-0.12 wt.%

Frost resistance: Frost resistant

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