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Quartz over Chrysocolla from the Ray Mine, Arizona

Kyle Kevorkian
Kyle Kevorkian
Los Angeles, California
0 for sale·Member since 2024

Quartz over Chrysocolla from the Ray Mine, Arizona. 4.3 cm.


A gorgeous, classic quartz over chrysocolla from the Ray Mine. This is the only specimen I can recall seeing from this find without a broken stalactite. The aesthetic presentation is pretty unbeatable, as well.

Product details

Species
Chrysocolla, QuartzAbout Chrysocolla →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.3 cm
Added on04/11/2025
Locality
USA, Arizona, Ray MineRegional guide →

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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.