![]() ![]() Apache Tears are usually translucent to transparent and medium brown in color. The wives and families of the warriors cried when they heard of the tragedy and their tears turned to stone upon hitting the ground. ![]() Facing defeat, the outnumbered Apache warriors rode their horses off the mountain to their deaths rather than be killed by the soldiers. The legend is that about 75 Apache warriors and the US Cavalry fought on a mountain overlooking what is now Superior, Arizona in the 1870s. These are often called Cosmic Obsidian.Īnother type of Obsidian is called “Apache Tears” because of a legend of the Apache tribe. There are also translucent Obsidian gems with white inclusions of Cristobalite. Rainbow Obsidian has an iridescent, rainbow-like sheen. Mahogany Obsidian has brownish-red patches or swirls of black Obsidian while Snowflake Obsidian has greyish white patches of black Obsidian. The most common are opaque cabochons of black, Mahogany, Snowflake or Rainbow Obsidian. There are several types of Obsidian typically offered as gems. Most Obsidian is typically opaque black and not desirable for faceting. It is sometimes classified instead as a mineraloid. Otherwise, it is very similar in composition to granite and rhyolite. Obsidian consists mainly of silicon dioxide and is mineral-like, but not a true mineral because it has no crystal structure and therefore is amorphous. It is produced from volcanoes when certain types of lava cool rapidly by flowing into a body of water. Obsidian, also known as volcanic glass, is a rock rather than a mineral that is a mixture of cryptocrystalline grains of silica minerals in a glass-like suspension. ![]()
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