- Origin: Congo
- Size: H15cm W23cm D7cm
- Description: Expertly polished form to reveal the natural artistic colour combination of dark and lighter green and turquoise circles, resulting from the Chrysocolla and Malachite.
- Additional information:
- Chrysocolla, a silicate mineral, hydrated copper silicate, formed as a decomposition product of copper minerals in most copper mines. Specimens with a fine green or bluish green colour may be used as ornamental stones.
- Malachite is considered as a semi-precious mineral and is mineral of copper. Because of its distinctive bright green colour and its presence in the weathered zone of nearly all copper deposits, malachite serves as a prospecting guide for that metal. Malachite has been used as an ornamental stone and as a gemstone for centuries.