During the Crutsceous period 145.5- 65.5 million years ago, a period of 79-80million the Eromanga sea existed in Central Eastern Australia. Coober Pedy in the Central North of South Australia lay on the South Western edge of this vast inland sea. During this time sediment (sand)settled on the sea floor. Building up in layers to form the basis of Zebra in stone. When the water evaporated these sediments were subject to thermal water rising from deep within the earth, along with the rising and falling of the underground water table of the artesian water table of the Great Artesian Basin. The thermal water brought iron oxides and manganese compounds from deep within the earth and deposited them into the sediments. Eventually these sediments dried and solidified to form the zebra stone you see before you.

The zebra stone stock we have is now rare as it was collected before long aboriginal native title had been proclaimed o we land that was part of the Coober Pedy Opal fossicking field, thus ensuring preservation of the stone and the location from which it came. We acknowledge the land of the Antakarinja- Matu Yankunytjatjara people as declared by the federal court of Australia. National native title tribunal 11/05/2011 and the land agreement over particular areas of Coober Pedy Opal fields 14/05/2015