Primary Malachite on Chrysocolla - image 1

Primary Malachite on Chrysocolla

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This is another unique specimen from the collection, and totally different in scale and appearance from other primary malachite I have seen from here. This piece features a 3-dimensional spray, hemispherical in shape, of acicular malachite crystals shooting out radially from a common center. The whole cluster glows with color...it is MUCH brighter and electric green, in person - so the contrast with the rolling blue chrysocolla is striking! I have seen much smaller examples of this habit from Kaokoveld. Nothing of this scale, however. where the cluster is not intergrown with the chrysocolla, it IS pristine. In person it is much more 3-dimensional...both the crystal aggregate and the specimen as a whole.