Description: Chrysocolla and Malachite from Yangchun, China A striking, sculptural, undulating large cabinet crust of parallel-growth, bubbly, malachite pleasingly coated with light powder-blue chrysocolla from recent finds in China. Dimension: 4.7 x 4 x 1.5 cm Weight: 50 grams Locality: Yangchun Co. Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China.avaloncrystal.com A very rare combination of Chrysocolla and Malachite only found in Yangchun in China. Beautiful new find of this rare species. The name of Chrysocolla was first used by Theophrastus in 315 B.C. and comes from the Greek term chrysos meaning gold and kolla, meaning glue in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold. André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers revived the name in 1808. Chrysocolla is a mineral of secondary origin, commonly associated with other secondary copper minerals, it is typically found as glassy botryoidal or rounded masses or bubbly crusts, and as jackstraw mats of tiny acicular crystals or tufts of fibrous crystals. There are no known crystals of Chrysocolla, The chrysocolla crystals are all pseudomorphs, Copper-bearing allophane.
Price: 30 GBP
Location: Crewkerne
End Time: 2024-12-15T16:25:56.000Z
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Sub-Type: Malachite
Type: Minerals/ Crystals
Shape: Natural
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
Finish: Natural & Polished
