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11.8 x 8.9 x 3.8 cm. A super specimen from an amazing find about a year back of deep turquoise blue chrysocolla with a luster so intense it looks man-made.
9.8 x 8.2 x 2.8 cm. This copper-mineral combo specimen is from a new find in China. It is a thick plate of solid malachite, with a layer of bright robin’s-egg-blue chrysocolla exposed beneath the culminating layer of botryoidal malachite.
8.2 x 3.8 x 2.9 cm. A beautiful specimen of botryoidal malachite with a layer of turquoise-blue chrysocolla on top - so that you can see the malachite peeking through in places, allowing the two colors to complement one another. Ex. Eric Asselborn Collection.
16.1 x 8.5 x 4.3 cm. The surface of this dramatic, large matrix specimen is covered with lustrous, translucent, royal blue, crystals of azurite, to 1.5 cm across. Adding a measure of beauty is the druse of light green malachite under the azurite. Harold Urish Collection.
9.1 x 5.7 x 4.7 cm. Limonite is the matrix for two generations of chrysocolla. The earliest to form is a cluster of small, translucent turquoise colored spheres. The second generation features larger spheres, to almost 1.0 cm across, that are translucent and a deep forest green. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
9.3 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm. Around a matrix core is a thin, fan shaped crust of multi-toned, green malachite, with spheres to .5 cm across. Upon analysis, this is really a mixture of malachite and chrysocolla though it looks more green than blue. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
11.4 x 7.8 x 3.2 cm. An uncommon specimen of Chinese prehnite, the typical light green, but with the interesting association of blue-green chrysocolla. You can also see a couple of glassy and sharp quartz crystals.
7.2 x 5.9 x 4.0 cm. A fine, old-time combination specimen from Bisbee of pastel-green, botryoidal smithsonite covering both sides of the mounded, vuggy gossan matrix. The smithsonite is beautifully accented by sparkly, amber calcite microcrystals. On the back, powder blue chrysocolla balls to 7 mm are aesthetically scattered in a large vug.
4.8 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm. A classic, old-time specimen of very colorful chrysocolla which is a double pseudomorph, having replaced a 3-dimensional rosette of malachite that was itself pseudomorphing azurite blades, all sitting in a curved vug coated with bubbly goethite. This is an excellent old-timer from the Whim Creek Copper Mine of Western Australia. These replacements came out over 20 years ago.
8.9 x 7.8 x 5.7 cm. Out of the Hauck Collection, here is a big, rich, beautiful pocket full of sparkly quartz on chrysocolla.
5.4 x 4.2 x 1.8 cm. A superb specimen from the very little-known Chinese locality of Dongchuan - a plate of botryoidal malachite with a layer of robin’s-egg blue chrysocolla, with a shimmering eggshell luster. Hints of green accent the pretty bright blue.
6.3 x 3.4 x 1.3 cm. These specimens of chrysocolla on malachite have a unique look to them, due to the eggshell luster of the botryoidal surface, with its layer of robin’s-egg blue chrysocolla on underlying malachite.
13.2 x 12.9 x 6.3 cm. This is a rare complete pocket from the old Bagdad locality with an amazing "scene" inside: tiny crystals of quartz have completely replaced the former aragonite crystals, but retaining the aragonite form, which you can clearly see in the spiky crystals. These pseudomorphs rise from a bed of quartz over a layer of massive green chrysocolla.
4.3 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm. Plancheite is a rare copper silicate. This is a superb specimen with spherical forms constituted by radiating acicular growths with a deep blue color, aesthetically set in chrysocolla.
6.9 x 5.6 x 3.9 cm. This is a fine plate of chrysocolla covered with sparkly microcrystals of quartz that light up the surface. The blue band wraps all the way around the specimen.
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