What is Natural Pearl?
Contrary to popular belief the natural pearl hardly ever produced by an intrusion of grain of sand into oyster. In reality certain kind of parasite can irritate the tissue of a mollusk that can not be expelled. This process happens by pure accident, these parasites act as irritants causing the mollusk to react by creating a layer of nacre to protect from the intruder. Nacre is nothing but naturally produced crystalline calcium carbonate which gives protection to the mollusk from the intruder. After many years of calcium carbonate build-up nacre will grow in size to form pearl. Unlike Gemstones created deep inside the earth crust, pearl is the only Gem Produced by living animal. Any mollusk with shell can produce the pearls, but not all the mollusks do not always produce pearls unless it is open and have a nutrient rich environment. Finding natural pearl from oyster beds need luck and skill especially for divers looking for marine pearls, because naturally occurring pearls are extremely
