Completed the stone with significantly more metal, up by 3 times & roughly 5 times as powerful. More metal exponentially makes it more powerful / not linear.  This verifies WR speculation that the metal reflects the pattern & pattern on pattern multiplies effect.

Research has show that metal powders also go up in price exponentially as the particle size get's to microns & less so we sought other methods.  Secondly, these particles are not smooth round balls but of erratic shape.  These 2 facts speak to making our own 'powders.  Rust, iron oxide, can be reduced in the presence of carbon & heat.  Carbon, of course, can come from the heat decomposition of our basic modality material.  Doing so should imprint the pattern on the metal particles that will be produced from this rust.  This process should increase the power of the stone in that the metal doesn't only reflect but does so with the pattern further amplifying it.  

So we are currently in the process of making rust amongst the modality material.  Later we will take the rust modality material mix, smolder it to yield small particles of pattern of interest