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OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Shield - Leland BlueOOAK Cabochon - Freeform Shield - Leland BlueOOAK Cabochon - Freeform Shield - Leland Blue

OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Shield - Leland Blue

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Leland Blue, is another by-product material from mining. This particular gem is from the short-lived days of smelting iron ore in Northwestern Michigan. The Upper Peninsula Mesabi iron ranges supplied the ore. A high grade charcoal made only from beech and maple combined with local limestone flux...
Colour Family: Blues

Size: 50mm+

General Shape: Other

Package Size: Each

Stone Availability: OOAK

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Leland Blue, is another by-product material from mining. This particular gem is from the short-lived days of smelting iron ore in Northwestern Michigan. The Upper Peninsula Mesabi iron ranges supplied the ore. A high grade charcoal made only from beech and maple combined with local limestone flux reduced the iron ore to pig iron, creating a unique foundry glass as a by-product. Smelting began in 1875 and by 1900 had ceased due to lack of hardwood. The byproduct was dumped into Lake Michigan and shows up from time to time on the beaches from Leland to Traverse City.

This specimen has a lot of tranlucency.

21mm x 50mm By the each.

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OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Shield - Leland Blue


<p> Cabochons!</p> <p> You asked - we deliver. Cabochons are a domed topped stone with a flat back - and you see them used in those spectacular ads on the backs of beading magazines where someone has spend hundreds of hours beading those wonderful bead collars - riffing off the colours and patterns in a central stone cab.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The general technique is to glue down the cabochon to some super-suede or some Lacey's stiff stuff, and then start beading a "bezel" around it to hold it in place, and then embellish from there. There's a tutorial <a href="http://jewelrymaking.about.com/library/weekly/aa072900.htm" target="_blank">here</a> for more details. </p> <p>  </p> <p> Of course - cabochons have been mounted in traditional fabricated metal jewelry for eons, and can also be used in metal clay projects - but we do NOT recommend firing these. (Make the piece first and add the stone after.) We have no idea what will happen to them when fired. Except the dyed turquoise howlite - I can tell you what happens to that! It disappears! Just a little pile of white ash left. :-(</p>