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Obsidian Slabs
Obsidian is volcanic glass. It often has flow lines that create interesting effects. Flow Obsidian, also known as Midnight Lace, has striking translucent, colorless flow lines against a black background. Snowflake obsidian has a light snowflake pattern in a black background. Gold sheen and silver sheen obsidians display gold and silver chatoyance when polished, rainbow obsidian displays different colors, etc. Obsidian has a reputation for being difficult to polish. Usually the reason for difficult polishing is that coarse grits can create a fairly deep fracture zone that doesn't come out when the stone is cut at finer grits. Another problem is obsidian doesn't polish well if it gets too hot. So, if you don't use super coarse grinding wheels and if you keep your polishing wheel slow and wet, good results will easily be obtained.

Example of the sheen effect when viewed at an angle.
 Item number: Slab882R - Flow Obsidian (Midnight Lace) Slabs - $7.00
Locality: probably from Oregon

 

Three slab parcel measures approximately:
2 at 9/32" thick and
1 at 9/32 to 5/16" thick.

Ruler is in inches.

 Item number: Slab884R - Flow Obsidian (Midnight Lace) Slabs - $7.00
Locality: probably from Oregon

Three slab parcel measures approximately:
3 at 9/32" thick.

Ruler is in inches.

 Item number: Slab823R - Snowflake Obsidian Slabs - $5.00
Locality: Utah

 

Three slab parcel measures approximately:
2 at 3/16" thick and
1 at 7/32 to 3/16" thick.

Ruler is in inches.

 Item number: Slab824R - Snowflake Obsidian Slabs - $5.00
Locality: Utah

 

Three slab parcel measures approximately:
2 at 3/16" thick and
1 at 7/32" thick.

Ruler is in inches.

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