Crystals vary in size from 5mm – 20mm long<\/p>\n
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Interesting Factoid:<\/strong><\/p>\n They are called “Pecos Diamonds” because they\u00a0are only\u00a0found in the Pecos River Valley, an area 20 miles wide and a north-south distance of about 100 miles, centering in Roswell, New Mexico and that when the sun’s rays are just right the desert looks as if it is\u00a0just a sea of glittering diamonds.\u00a0They were documented by Don Antonio de Espejo, a Spanish new world explorer, in 1583. Early cliff dwellers of the southwest\u00a0area used them as drills and have also been used in ceremonial tools and for jewelry with the more recent Indians.<\/p>\n The great Capitan Barrier Reef grew 300 milllion\u00a0years ago during the Permian time of the Paleozoic era, trapping the Permian Sea. When the sea evaporated it left\u00a0beds of gypsum, know as the Permian-Whitehorse formation. Quartz crystals\u00a0formed in the gypsum. Then\u00a0over time and natural erosion they have been released.\u00a0Pecos diamonds are doubly terminated hexagonal prisms and although quartz replacing gypsum is not unusual, the development of such doubly terminated crystals by its replacement is. The crystals are usually small, most under an inch, are semi-transparent, but the majority are translucent to opaque. They vary from\u00a0clear to white, pink, yellow, orange, red, green, brown, and black shades.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beautiful\u00a0fine clean double terminated\u00a0crystals from Pecos River,\u00a0Chaves County, New Mexico.<\/p>\n Varying in color from light peach to burnt orange.<\/p>\n Priced at $1 per gram, minimum of 5g<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[219,7],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2606","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-crystals","product_cat-rough-rock","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinasrockshop.com\/shop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}