Color is a unique green-blue but can vary widely from more
blue to more green, often in the same specimen.
Growth Habits include mostly massive forms that can be crusts, stalactites and
botryoidal. Also as inclusions in other minerals such as quartz.
Hardness is variable from 2 to 4.
Associated Minerals are quartz, limonite, azurite, malachite, cuprite and other
secondary copper minerals
may have an opal like appearance
Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, USA; Israel; Zaire and England
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$1125 large sphere over 5 inches Intense blue colors of chrysocolla and greens of malachite create a great contrast against the brown colors of the ironstone matrix. White quartz geodes. A great example of superior Arizona material
The next three images show the same sphere in different orientations photo 1 |
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Chrysocolla: Arizona photo #2 |
Price: $1,125 photo #3 |
Approx. size: 5" photo #4 |
The above sphere has the most amazing colors and color contrast and has a number of beautiful quartz geodes. Excellent polishing and high lustre, makes this sphere most desirable for any serious sphere collection.
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Chrysocolla and Malachite front view Location: Arizona Beautiful, clean, druzy geode |
$ 235 rear view Approx. size: 3 inches Great banding, both with malachite and chrysocolla "laced" sharply contrasted to the brown matrix
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