About 2.3 billion years ago, photosynthetic organisms started consuming carbon dioxide and sunlight and exhaling oxygen. For the first time, our planet had free oxygen floating around in the atmosphere. Before that, if you left a piece of iron or steel on Earth's surface, it wouldn't rust. But all of a sudden, life produced oxygen, and you start getting get rust -- and oxides of copper, manganese, and cobalt. There are literally thousands of minerals analogous to rust. You wouldn't have these without oxygen.
From the 12 "primordial" minerals forged inside supernovae to the 4,300 or so mineral species known today, minerals have diversified, grown in complexity, and even been driven into extinction. Before life evolved on Earth, the slow, inexorable grind of plate tectonics created a total of 1,500 mineral species. That means about two-thirds of all known minerals depend on Earth's living creatures to survive. Most minerals require living creatures to spring into existence. In life's beginnings, it may have been the other way around. (Learn More...)
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Fun Fact:
The life of a crystal not only requires perfect conditions for formation to begin, but also later changes must be perfect to protect them rather than destroy them. Most crystals actually grow and dissolve and grow and dissolve as the conditions change and chemicals and elements necessary for their formation are depleted and replenished. Internally most minerals show inclusions and growth patterns caused by this changing environment which a gemologist can use for identification and can prove natural origin.Featured Half-Price Sale:
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What's New at Natural Mystics?
We have just Re-Designed our HomePage... agian! It's looking better than ever, and it's more user-friendly. Although our website is pretty young (under 1 year), we're getting first page results for a lot of Google search queries. So we decided to go ahead and change our keywords to something shorter and much more competitive. We have a good feeling that we can greatly increase our web traffic that way.Please check out our new and improved HomePage and send us your feedback back it.
We really need your suggestions and coments!
Coming Soon...
We will soon be adding a whole new Shopping Section on crystal-bead-jewelry.com.We'll be adding more Articles, and Jewelry Items. Plus we will soon be installing the Order Forms
so that you can more easily Order Custom Jewelry.
Natural Mystics NewsLetter. Late November 2008. Vol. I - Issue 6.