Description
Each Libyan desert glass pendant here is a natural piece of golden impact glass set in a sterling silver bezel with a bail, ready to hang on your own chain. Choose your piece from the photos: you will receive the exact pendant shown.
About these Libyan desert glass pendants
The glass runs from pale lemon to warm honey gold, with soft natural pitting and sculpted edges where the desert wind has worked the surface over millions of years. Some pieces are clear enough to glow when light passes through them, others have a gentle cloudiness that holds the colour.
The silver follows the natural outline of each piece, so no two pendants are shaped alike.
What is Libyan desert glass?
Libyan desert glass is a natural glass found in the Great Sand Sea of western Egypt, near the Libyan border. It formed around 29 million years ago, when an intense heat event, most likely a meteorite airburst or impact, melted the desert sand into glass. It is one of the purest natural glasses known, almost entirely silica. You can read more on Mindat.
It is often paired with moldavite, another natural glass born from a cosmic impact, and the two make a striking set worn together.
Libyan desert glass in traditional practice
With its sunny colour, Libyan desert glass is traditionally linked with the Sun, the solar plexus chakra and personal confidence. In crystal traditions it is a stone of willpower, clarity and manifestation, worn to keep an intention close through the day.
Caring for your pendant
Libyan desert glass is a natural glass of around six on the Mohs scale, so it can chip if knocked against harder surfaces. Take it off for sleep, sport and washing, store it apart from harder stones and polish the silver with a soft cloth.
Browse our tektites and impact glass, our moldavite or more crystal jewellery.
Libyan desert glass pairs beautifully with moldavite. See our raw moldavite pendants and moldavite stud earrings.
Read more in our guide to Libyan desert glass, from its desert origins to the scarab of Tutankhamun.
Crystal correspondences are shared as part of traditional practice. They are not a substitute for medical or professional advice.
