Nuummite

Formed roughly three billion years ago—one of the oldest minerals on Earth. Found only in the Nuuk region of southwestern Greenland.

Two amphibole minerals, anthophyllite and gedrite, alternate in thin layers. This fine structure causes light interference, producing flashes of gold and blue across the surface. A mineral three billion years old, still bending light.

Greenland's Inuit have known this stone for a long time. It was formally described by Western mineralogy in 1982. The stone is three billion years old. The record is barely forty.

When a quality you didn't know you had finally shows itself, the first response is often not surprise but recognition. As if it had been there the entire time, waiting for the right conditions. Three-billion-year-old mineral flashing light at its surface is not unlike that moment. I chose this stone for the person who senses something in himself is still waiting to appear.