Shungite, which has very high carbon content,  has been used as folk medicine for more than 200 years. Peter the Great established a spa using the purifying properties of shungite. Modern testing of shungite has confirmed, as is the so often the case with folk remedies, that the stone possesses natural antibacterial properties.

This black shungite slab is in an envelope of silver soldered tin - the solder sculpted, shaped and patinated to create texture and depth.  The lighter spots visible on the stone (top right and mid-left) are little veins of gold pyrite often found on shungite.

Length: 20 inches (51 cm) end to end. 

The focal is around 4 inches (10 cm) high including both bales

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