Azurite & Malachite on Quartz (old & rare Cornwall)

Item Description

The dealer we obtained this old-timer from, said the piece was from Redruth, Cornwall. MINDAT lists azurite from the area, but specimens are VERY RARE. The tiny translucent, beautiful electric-blue azurite botryoids and prisms cover two sides of the sculptural quartz matrix. Another side is richly covered with tiny stellate sprays of green acicular malachite crystals and are scattered elsewhere. Certainly over 100 years old from the extinct mines of the area. A RARE, desirable and colorful old combination from the historic mines of Cornwall.