This is arguably the single finest petrified log we’ve ever offered from Wyoming’s Eden Valley petrified forest! This 100% complete and perfectly preserved log has tons of large and small cubic golden calcite crystals packed into a huge cavity. That cavity and those crystals are much larger than any other I’ve ever seen in one of these logs, helped by the fact that this is one of the largest logs I’ve ever seen from this forest! The cavern is particularly showy from the back but it is also visible through the cavern opening in the front where the face is polished to show it all off properly. It’s one of the finest examples of logs found at this site and a true collector piece. The face reveals gorgeous wood grain laced with agate including a blue agate crystal vein that I suspect was a large insect boring! We acquired this piece in an estate sale several decades ago. I only recently found the time to rework what was a very poor finish to polish it properly and reveal the magnificent treasure contained inside! The blue agate pattern laced through the wood grain combined with the massive golden calcite is as nice as you’re ever going to see! There’s more color and pattern in this one than most by far and it’s an extra large, fully in tact piece to boot. It’s a gorgeous and fascinating natural fossil treasure and a true museum piece! The base is naturally flat to hold it perfectly for display as shown in the photos with no need for a stand. Here’s an absolutely remarkable petrified wood log from a larger sized tree that was preserved in Wyoming’s Eden Valley petrified wood deposit. This one is beyond nice – I’ve never seen its equal in a museum and only the most dedicated petrified wood collectors have pieces of this caliber in their own collections. It has a really interesting, perfectly preserved feathered wood grain surface, and lots of agate surrounding it. This one has an extremely well defined, highly polished agate face with some of the prettiest, high contrast wood I’ve ever seen in one of these logs. Most of these specimens are pepper wood, and this finely preserved fossil is consistent with those. There is more than enough detail captured here for the hobby hound or paleobotanist to easily classify it. This nice log is really a choice specimen from this location. This wood comes from a sagebrush desert in central Wyoming. The digging is hot and dusty, but every once in a while you stumble on a real treasure and this little log is one of them! The rich, coffee and black colors the wood is preserved in are characteristic of these specimens, as are the infusions of blue agate that filled the cracks and coated the log! There are also multiple openings near the “bark” that have filed in with golden calcite which just looks beautiful in contrast to the rich blue agate. Much of the exterior is still coated in the fossil algae that preserved these ancient treasures in a long lost tropical swamp. It’s about 8″ wide and 7″ tall across the mirror polished face. It’s about 5 1/2 from the face to the back of the log. The log weighs about 12.46 lbs. It has been cut and polished on our specially built lapidary equipment to produce a mirror perfect, unparalleled shine to show off all the gemmy detail and spectacular fossil beauty inside. It really took a pretty awesome polish even by our unmatched standards! A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary. The item “SiS MUSEUM GRADE 12+ lb. Eden Valley Petrified Wood Log AMAZING CALCITE XTLS” is in sale since Thursday, January 2, 2020. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Fossils\Vegetation\Petrified Wood”. The seller is “rockshop” and is located in Beaverton, Oregon. This item can be shipped worldwide.