Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Chrysocolla

Views:
Watches:
PFK789572

Chrysocolla

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mines, Lavrion, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

Excellent color and superb for the locality example of chrysocolla, extremely rare in masses like this one and unusually found as very thin crusts.

ex Konstantinos Papaspyropoulos collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrysocolla

Formula: 
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4·nH2O (x < 1)
Strunz: 
9.ED.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps