"Aurore 18" bracelet - AURORE Collection

NOTE

All our Million Dreams products are entirely assembled by hand in Italy, in Caorle. The stones and metal parts make their imperfections a specific and natural feature.

MATERIALS

Composition in elastic thread: Pink Opal + Tiger's Eye + Sunstone + Galvanized metal sphere insert with zircons + Nickel free gold stainless steel spacers.

Stones diameter: mm. 6

DESCRIPTION

The AURORE 18 bracelet stands out for its shades that reflect personality and elegance in the Million Dreams style. Embellished with Metal sphere insert galvanized with zircons, is inspired by the colors that announce the magic of an aurora on a new winter morning. A precise accessory to match your look, or a special gift to whoever you know.

MORE INFORMATION

Opal is an amorphous colloidal mineral , consisting of hydrated silica (SiO2 nH2O), semi-amorphous or microcrystalline , i.e. without a reticular structure , in fact it does not appear in crystals, but in veins, nodules and crusts of various colors, often with iridescence . The color varies from transparent to milky white, with an infinity of different intermediates (green, red, yellow, brown, black).

The word "opal" has a common root in the Sanskrit ùpala, in the Greek ὀπάλλιος opallios and in the Latin opălus (meaning " precious stone " [4] ).

97% of the world's opal production is in Australia [5] , the country that made it the national stone, especially in the Lightning Ridge area, where black opal is mined. Important deposits are also located in Mexico and Ethiopia .

The opalescence , the play of colors and light presented by the opal samples, is due to interference effects and the diffraction of light caused in turn by the regular arrangement of the silica spheres, which are arranged in a packed, regular shape and three-dimensional; it is therefore similar to the arrangement of crystals.

Tiger 's eye is a variety of quartz containing inclusions of crocidolite , a mineral belonging to the asbestos group. The presence of these isooriented fibers, yellow in color tending to gold, gives the mass a particular effect called chalking . It is mainly used as a gem for jewelry making usually cabochon cut . The mineral comes mainly from South Africa and is appreciated for its particularity.

In medieval legends a "stone of the sun" is reported which seems to have allowed the Vikings to orient themselves with respect to the position of the sun even with fog or overcast skies during their long journeys at sea. A Danish archaeologist, Thorkild Ramskou, hypothesized in 1967 that it could be crystals with pleochroism , able to highlight the polarization of sunlight that occurs in the atmosphere, invisible to the naked eye. According to this hypothesis, it could be precisely cordierite , quite common in the form of pebbles on the Norwegian coasts. Cordierite is a mineral, more precisely a cyclosilicate of aluminum, iron and magnesium. Cordierite was named in honor of the French geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777 - 1861). It is known for its very evident pleochroism , that is, a change in color depending on the direction from which it is illuminated, so much so that it is called dichroite ("two colors", in ancient Greek). When presented as a gem , with a blue-violet color, it is called Iolite.