Thursday, December 30, 2010

the Cozmic Blues Collection - new meteorite ring campo del cielo




copper brass silver bezels lapis lazuli 7 mm 3mm meteorite campo del cielo size 6.5

wikipedia:
In 1576, the governor of a province in Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a huge mass of iron, which he had heard that Indians used for their weapons. The Indians claimed that the mass had fallen from the sky in a place they called Piguem Nonralta which the Spanish translated as Campo del Cielo ("Field of the Sky"). The expedition found a large mass of metal protruding out of the soil. They assumed it was an iron mine and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. The governor documented the expedition and deposited the report in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, but it was quickly forgotten and later reports on that area merely repeated the Indian legends. Following the legends, in 1774 don Bartolome Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass which he called el Meson de Fierro ("the Table of Iron"). Maguna thought the mass was the tip of an iron vein. The next expedition, led by Rubin de Celis in 1783, used explosives to clear the ground around the mass and found that it was probably a single stone. Celis estimated its mass as 15 tonnes and abandoned it as worthless. He himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London and published his report in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.[2] Those samples were later analyzed and found to contain 90% iron and 10% nickel and assigned to a meteoritic origin.[3]
Campo del Cielo is located in Argentina
Campo del Cielo
Location of Campo del Cielo craters

Later, many iron pieces were found in the area weighing from a few milligrams to 34 tonnes. A mass of about 1 tonne known as Otumpa was located in 1803. Its 634 kg part was brought in 1813 to Buenos Aires and later donated to the British Museum. Other large fragments are summarized in the table below. The mass called el Taco was originally 3070 kg, but the largest remaining fragment weighs 1998 kg.[4]

The largest mass of 37 tonnes was located in 1969 at a depth of 5 m using a metal detector.[3] This stone, named El Chaco, is the second heaviest single-piece meteorite after the Hoba meteorite (Namibia) which weighs 60 tonnes. However, the total mass of the Campo del Cielo fragments found so far exceeds 60 tonnes, making it the heaviest meteorite ever recovered on Earth.[5]

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

the Cozmic Blues Collection - new meteorite necklace









 


A Sikhote Alin meteorite sits on a fine silver bezel wire soldered onto  a fine silver bezel. This is filled with lapis lazuli splinters  (Afghanistan) and epoxy. 24 K gold flakes were added.

The triangle base metal is a bimetall of copper and Sterling silver. It was partly embossed.
3 amber stones 4mm and 3 lapis lazuli 4mm sit in serrated Sterling silver bezels on the bimnetal.
A nickel silver needle pin is soldered onto the back.

size of the brooch:
3.25 in long, 2 in high

Thursday, December 9, 2010

the Cosmic Blues Collection-new meteorite necklace


necklace embossed copper, silvered copper, meteorite Nantan, lapis lazuli Afghanistan handmade,lapis lazuli 3mm, Amber handmade, fine silver bezel, brass, gold flakes, epoxy, silver plated chain

the embossed copper is on a higher level than the silvered copper below. The meteorite sits in a hole, held by epoxy and half surrounded by gold flakes.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

the Cozmic Blues Collection-new necklace

the meteorite pieces sit in 3 brass bezels in the middle
the handmade lapis lazuli is from Chile, the splinters are from Afghanistan
Pyrite splinters were added and fixed with epoxy resin


Friday, December 3, 2010

The Cozmic Blues Collection - meteorite rings with lapis lazuli

jewelry made of lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, which was mined already 6000 years ago, meteorite pieces from outside the earth, and metals, that will corrode to dust in the earth again, from which they were once gained by human invention and work.
Metamorphoses. That`s the Cosmic Blues!

Electronic composition "metamorphoses" (in progress)
www.hypedsound.com/music/songs.php?actio n=listen&id=6469






copper, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, meteorite from Nantan, China (fallen in the 16th century)



silver meteorite gold flakes lapis lazuli epoxy

Friday, November 5, 2010

necklace embossed copper brass epoxy hematite Swarovski acrylic pens nugold

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

embossed brass denim lapis 4mm lapis lazuli self cut Swarovski aluminum epoxy acrylic silver chain

the space between the red Swarovski crystals, the blue-white lapis lazuli triangle and the surrounding brass is filled with epoxy resin. The color of the background is shining through. So if you wear something black , the necklace will look different than if you wear something white.

Friday, October 22, 2010


fine silver, copper, brass, synth. spinel 5mm, amber 10mm

bronze ring with jade redone

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 additional 3mm onyx

Thursday, October 21, 2010



embossed bronze fine silver jade cut by myself



nugold. fine silver, Sterling silver, lapis lazuli cut by myself

Tuesday, October 19, 2010


ring with a stone cut and polished by myself. The stone is a lapis lazuli. The ring is made of Sterling and fine silver

Friday, October 15, 2010

necklace n ickelsilver brass fine silver obsidian turquiose 7mm amethyst 7mm copper chain-2

Thursday, October 14, 2010


bracelet brass copper solder finesilver spinel 3mm

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