Long Translucent Unpolished Moldavite Sterling Capped Pendant

This natural and untreated 10 carat Long Translucent Unpolished Moldavite Sterling Capped Pendant measures 1.5" long. This moldavite specimen displays the characteristic ridged surface we associate with high quality stones, clearly visible in the pictures on this page. It is capped in a simple sterling silver setting and comes with an 18" sterling silver chain so it will hang between the throat and the heart. This pendant comes to you packaged in a lovely velveteen jewelry box. Properties of Moldavite Moldavite is a rare bottle-green translucent stone of unearthly origins. This gemstone was cut from a museum grade piece of natural moldavite. Scientists postulate that a meteor shower in Germany some 15-20 million years ago liquified the landscape where the meteors landed, which was vaporized upon impact, and solidified when the vapors entered the much cooler upper atmosphere, then propelled hundreds of miles away, landing in the Moldau Valley of Czechoslovakia -- site of the only molda