Detroit agate Bashny.Net

Unusual stone. Beautiful. I do not recall the name of this mineral?
Now I'll tell you what it is really ...

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Ford (fordite), also known as Detroit agate, painted in bright colors and psychedelic swirls, and is positioned as an attractive jewel. But it is not a gem, but rather the dried paint, stackable, layer by layer in the factories, which had long since been used for painting cars.

Before painting the car became an automated process, they spray painted by hand. Aerosol paint gradually accumulate on floors and blocks of shops. Over time, hundreds of color layers in countless colors were coated with each other, layer by layer. Eventually the paint layers become too thick and heavy, it was impossible to wash off, or remove. No one can say for sure when working off the paint became precious, most likely, some of the workers appreciate the beauty fordita and turned it into art.

According to legend, some tricky workers immediately realized that these "waste" a very beautiful and can be cut and polished as ornamental stones. In this case, it will look like something like "psychedelic agate." :)

Once this discovery was made public, people Rushed to produce Ford's car plants, offering to help with the cleaning of the premises of the paint. "Unfortunately," the practice of painting pulvelizatora no longer used. Now paint with the application of an electrostatic field, and this leads to the fact that all the paint falls exactly where needed - on the machine body, and not in the air hovering particles of paint ... Not a drop by, so to speak. :) So Ford is now rare materials. It has a nostalgic past and is quite rare and limited in number.

Besides Detroit, Ford also comes from several different places. In the UK, there are some beautiful specimens, recognizable thanks to a very unusual coloring. At Detroit rock usually has bright colors. Ford Ohio comes from factories that were painted vans, because the colors had more gray.

Main site (in English) and is called - fordite com. There is the history of the material and little pictures.

Besides America, Ford "fabricated" and in other countries. In particular, in the UK there are samples of the material in which the "interlaced" not only matte paint colored layers, but also shades of "metallic." For Detroit agate alternate with bright colors and gray primer layer. At Ford, which was delivered from Ohio, another palette: here prevail earthen shades of green and brown, as well as more vibrant colors such as yellow, orange and bright turquoise. They were used at a local factory for painting vans.