Chrysoprase (NEW FIND)

Szklary Chrysoprase Mine, Szklary, Gmina Zabkowice Slaskie, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Miniature, 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Start Time: 06/09/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/13/2019 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

One face of this solid nodule of glorious, lustrous, translucent, rich apple-green Chrysoprase has been sawed and polished and is nicely accented with just a bit of matrix. This is a beautiful and striking piece of Chrysoprase from a NEW FIND at this historic old nickel deposit, mined since the Middle Ages and finally abandoned in 1980 (MINDAT). Chrysoprase is the apple-green variety of chalcedony. The color is caused by tiny inclusions of Nickel-bearing layered silicates. High quality material from a new find and GLOWS, when backlit.

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