Bottle opener featuring Australian mineral photo thin section art in resin

Bottle opener with stainless steel opener and embedded mineral photography thin section art image in resin.
The image in the bottle opener shown is a magnified view (under crossed polars) of radiating blades of epidote set in a coarse groundmass of quartz. The image was captured by my sister Sue during her career as a geologist and is one in a series of Australian Minerals. This is how Sue did it:
After cutting and roughly trimming with a diamond tipped saw the rock is slowly cut, ground and then polished to a thickness of 0.03mm (30µm). Using resin to hold this incredibly thin slice of rock onto a glass slide the constituent minerals are now ready to be viewed under a polarising microscope. The diagnostic colors produced by projecting various wavelengths of light through the rock sliver, in conjunction with mineral shape and its association with other minerals are used to determine the mineral type. The diagnostic colors and shape of the mineral can also tell the experienced petrologist the approximate chemical composition of the mineral.
Working with Sue's Australian Minerals series in her memory, this image has been printed on a special photographic paper allowing me to embed the image in resin in a mould, making a stylish addition to your bar or a great gift idea for your geologist or rockhound friends, or someone who just appreciates beautiful objects!
I will be making more mineral photo bottle openers featuring all of Sue's Australian Mineral Series. The other images in the Series are shown in this listing and you can request any of these photos for your bottle opener. As I make more openers I will upload photos of them into the listing.
Dimensions: 14cmL