Wonderful Shungite

[David Merrill]

Recently I have been exploring an ancient coal vein in northern Russia, two billion years old. Lightning over the long millennium has converted the carbon into about 2% buckeyballs with the shurgite. That is the coal vein named shurgite for the village there, Shurga. About a million years ago a meteorite struck the coal vein and converted the coal in that seven-mile diameter crater to elite shurgite.

This shurgite is much higher C(60) fullerene content and describes the energy of the meteorite impact nicely. I call the marks impact fronds. About every elite shungite chunk has a story to tell.

This one is a favorite, as there is a baby dragon on mama dragon's head, with an eyeball behind:



This one has an Eye of Horus like in the pyramid.

This last one shows the direction of the meteorite impact as the chunk of shungite separated from the rest of the vein of coal.