Chrysocolla Azurite Quartz 9x13-12x16mm Top Drill Irregular Flat Drop - 15-16 InchChrysocolla, a hydrous copper silicate, is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens. It often also occurs with colors of rust, copper, black, white and reddish brown in speckles, veins and brecciated patterns. It is a very soft stone typically found near copper deposits. Chrysocolla was first described by Theosphrastus, a Greek philosopher and botanist who also named the stone, in 315 BCE.

Lapis was ground and processed to make the pigment ultramarine for use in frescoes and oil painting

including shiller — a sometimes iridescent bronzelike luster — in some stones

Moss Agate is a variety of Chalcedony

It is also somewhat delicate with a hardness ranging from 5-5

where it gets its name

leading to discoloration

African Green Jasper is a single to colored opaque stone

The cabochon you received will not be exactly what is show in the image

Peruvian Turquoise is also known as Turquoise Chrysocolla

This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the minerals that give Mookaite its distinctive colors

Queen Victoria’s granddaughter

found only in the Dominican Republic