Mexican Velvet Obsidian Lapidary Stone Slab Slice Cut Rock Chinese Rainbow Fluorite and it has to be

and it has to be turned just right to get the flash of brilliance

and each and every slab off this chunk produced some amazing high end slabs

often with longer plumes

though for the best result direct light is needed

Please note

Mexican Velvet Obsidian Lapidary Stone Slab Slice Cut Rock Chinese Rainbow Fluorite and it has to beThe first three photos were taken in direct sunlight to bring out the color. Mexican Velvet Obsidian is one of my personal favorites in the Obsidian World. Velvet Obsidian has a lovely velvety display of flashes of color, often green, gold, and purple. It makes some fantastic cabs and can be fun to cut and work with. This material use to be shipped in by the dump truck, however, that was around the 1960s and modernly the mine is same as tapped out,