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Lilac Mookaite Stone

Lilac Mookaite Stone
Category: Gems & Stones
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Mookaite is a visually striking gemstone found close to the Kennedy Ranges near Gascoyne Junction, a small town east of Carnarvon in Western Australia. The name Mookaite is derived from its location at Mooka Creek, on Mooka Station, once a large sheep grazing property.

 

Mookaite is one of Australia’s best known gemstones due to its amazing combination of color, pattern and hardness. Vivid red, white, yellow and purple shades make Mookaite a highly sought after, world class stone.

Mookaite has an interesting origin. The area in which it is found was once part of the ocean that had long since receded, leaving an inland sea. As this inland sea evaporated, billions of tiny organisms known as Radiolarian were left behind in beds up to several meters thick. These calcareous skeletal remains absorbed iron rich minerals and silica from the sea and underground vents and springs, to form Windalia Radiolarite, a hard, fine grain chert, covering an area of thousands of square kilometers.

The higher concentrations of iron and silica at the Mooka Station deposits, has produced this unique example of Radiolarite we know as Mookaite.

This formation is from the Early Cretaceous period, about 120 million years old.

 

Lilac Mookaite was recently named the gem of the year as it is a new find and very popular among collector's for it's beautiful and rare color.

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