Peruvian Chrysocolla 8mm Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch shell remote parts of the globe

remote parts of the globe

and Egyptians were mining the stone as early as 3200 BCE

gray and black

Malachite was used extensively as decoration in the palaces of Russian tsars and forms the columns of St

with magenta to purple seen as the most valuable

Peruvian Chrysocolla 8mm Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch shell remote parts of the globeChrysocolla, a hydrous copper silicate, is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens. It often also occurs with colors of rust, copper, black, white and reddish brown in speckles, veins and brecciated patterns. It is a very soft stone typically found near copper deposits. Chrysocolla was first described by Theosphrastus, a Greek philosopher and botanist who also named the stone, in 315 BCE.