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Chrysocolla Pseudomorph After Azurite

$2,000.00

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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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A particularly fine, rich turquoise-blue to minty-green miniature of intergrown prismatic Azurite crystals, completely and faithfully pseudomorphed by Chrysocolla. From the find made at the Ray Mine Open Pit in Pinal County, Arizona several years ago and a rare specimen to find nowadays. Many individual crystals are developed to 2.5 cm tall and where their tops are broken, reveal a concentrically banded interior of alternating green, blue and turquoise. Secondary overgrowths of micro-spherical Chrysocolla coat the pseudomorphs to produce interesting surface textures. A most aesthetic specimen.

Product details

Species
Chrysocolla, AzuriteAbout Chrysocolla →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions4.1 x 6.0 x 3.6 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
USA, Arizona, Ray MineRegional guide →
SKUCC11612

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Chrysocolla
Mineral guide
Learn about Chrysocolla
sky-blue to teal-green copper silicate; botryoidal coatings and stalactites, often with quartz drusy, valued for color and locality; ID tips.
Chrysocolla
Regional guide
Chrysocolla from Ray Mine, Arizona, USA
Ray Mine chrysocolla has the color that made Arizona copper minerals famous: saturated turquoise, robin’s-egg blue, blue-green, and darker teal, often with enough silica to take on the glassy depth collectors associate with “gem silica” or chrysocolla chalcedony. The best specimens are not merely blue masses. They are textural pieces: botryoidal seams, sparkling quartz-dusted pockets, stalactitic fingers, chrysocolla replacing earlier copper minerals, and intensely colored material set against brown gossan, quartzite, black tenorite-rich matrix, malachite, or relic azurite forms.