Malachite with Quartz

$650.00

$40.00 shipping
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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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This very large miniature to small cabinet specimen from the Tenke-Fungurume area in the Kolwezi mining district, DR Congo displays perfectly the wonderful new association of Quartz overgrowing Malachite. Displaying a prominent, large, 2 cm radius, rounded spray of green fibrous Malachite, broken internally to reveal its wonderful colour and form, the remainder of the specimen features a 2 mm thick layer of finely crystallized glossy pyramidal Quartz coating both Malachite and the underlying purple-brown ironstone matrix. One 'hemisphere' of Quartz displays a slight green colour due to underlying Malachite and the remainder of the Quartz has a purple-brown colour created by the ironstone matrix. A super example of this distinctive material.