"Eilat Stone" - copper minerals

Item Description

Eilat Stone is the name for a green-blue inhomogeneous mixture of several secondary copper minerals including malachite, azurite, turquoise, pseudomalachite, chrysocolla and others. The Eilat stone is the National stone of Israel, and is also known as the King Solomon Stone. (MINDAT Caveat emptor: The blue and green stones sold in tourist souvenir shops are generally imported from foreign copper mines, and are not really from Israel, which is of little importance to the tourists but has to be considered by serious mineral collectors.) This came from a well-respected old collection in NY, and he believed it to be legitimate although we have no way to verify this easily. Both ends have been sawed to reveal the rich turquoise blue-green color.