A man with a passion for tracking down fragments of comets that have touched Earth’s surface has transformed this unusual hobby into a thriving jewelry business.
Emil Davidsson is a 31-year-old adventurer hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who has gained recognition for his unique skill in meteorite hunting.
Emil’s captivating expeditions are meticulously documented in online videos, showcasing his remarkable journey to collect meteorites from various locations. He then channels his creativity by crafting these space relics into exquisite pieces of jewelry that are actually available on the internet to purchase on his very own website.
Among his prized creations are pendants, modestly priced at around $100, carefully crafted from small fragments of meteorites estimated to be priced anywhere from one million to a staggering 4.5 billion years old. More than just pendants, Emil also designs and sells watches that he adorned with meteorites for around $395, as well as rings for $130.
Emil has been meteorite hunting for at least a decade and says they are “extremely rare and difficult to find.”
Moreover, he’s even been on more serious expeditions on both the driest place on Earth, which is the Atacama Desert, as well as the coldest place on Earth, the Artic Circle, all on a hunt for his treasured space debris.
Emil said, “Every year, I would go on expeditions lasting four to five months above the Arctic Circle.”
To aid in his meteorite hunts, Emil uses a specialized metal detector equipped with pulse indicators that put out high-amperage signals, helping to generate electromagnetic fields around the detector. This innovative device was created to react when it encounters a metal object, causing this electromagnetic “to collapse,” resulting in a voltage spike that is represented as sound.
When a meteorite isn’t readily visible on the surface, Emil must resort to manually excavating the soil, sometimes digging as deep as ten feet – or 3 meters. The thrill of unearthing these celestial treasures could be described as completely out of this world, figuratively and literally!
Making the Jewelry
According to Emil, “Each type of meteorite requires a different process since all meteorites are unique,” explained the craftsman who resides in Bali, Indonesia. “For example, iron meteorites, are composed of 92-99% iron.”
“After we cut them into slices, we need to stabilize them using various methods because if we don’t do that they tend to rust,” he adds.
In addition, he uses nitric acid to bring out the meteorite’s distinctive structure, better known as the Widmanstätten pattern, which also happens to be one of the most amazing features of particular meteorites, as seen in the photo above and to the left.
He explains, “It forms through the slow cooling of molten metal over millions of years resulting in the formation of exquisite crystalline 3D patterns. This unique crystallization process cannot be replicated on Earth as it requires extreme outer space conditions over millions of years.”
“These meteorites originated as remnants from the formation of our solar system, making them older than our planet itself. By holding a meteorite in your hand, you are touching the oldest material you could ever come into contact with,” he adds.
He also shares, “Some meteorites come from the Asteroid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter (so) they have also traveled millions of miles through space.”
However, mostly due to either luck or chance, and really, the gravitational pull of the Earth as these meteorites fall randomly across the planet in mostly remote locations – and thousands of years later – Emil has managed to find some of their remnants using his lucky metal detector in order to create truly one-of-a-kind jewelry that’s seriously otherworldly.
Get ready to be blown away by the video of Emil doing what he does best below:
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