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What is Ammolite?  

Fossil ammonite
 100 million years old (Late Cretaceous Period)  

Ammonites are extinct mollusks related to the modern squid, octopus and Chambered Nautilus. Under certain conditions related to fossilization, the nacreous shell becomes highly iridescent; the resulting gemlike material is called "ammolite."  


 

This Ammolite gemstone is part of a 75 million year old, Placenticeras Meeki Ammonite fossil - which are cut, shaped and polished. The higher quality gemstones will have three or more colours, strong iridescence and significant shift in colour as the gem is rotated.


Ammolite was discovered by the Blackfoot Indians in the Canadian Rocky Mountains who named it Buffalo stone.  A Blackfoot woman discovered the stone when looking for firewood.   It was a harsh winter and there were few buffalo and her people were starving.  She heard singing and was drawn to an unusual rock under a cottonwood tree.  The ammolite stone told her it was powerful medicine  and to take it back to her tribe and it would provide bison for her tribe to eat.  The next morning a huge herd of buffalo was seen right outside of their camp.  The ammolite stone was used in bison hunting ceremonies .  It was wrapped in a medicine bundle of buffalo hide.This buffalo stone was called Iniskim.  

Today we call it Ammonite.


The number of primary colors 
A large array of color is displayed in ammolite, including all the spectral colors found in nature. Red and green are far more common than blue or purple due to the latter's fragility (). There are also certain hues, like crimson or violet or gold, which are derived from a combination of the primary colors, that are the rarest and in highest demand. The most valuable grades have three or more primary colors or 1–2 bright and even colors, with the lowest grades having one comparatively dull color predominant.

 

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