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- Australian Minerals, Minerals of the World, Rock 'n Slabs, Rocks
AUSSIE CHRYSOCOLLA SPECIMEN
Aussie Chrysocolla Specimen with excellent vibrant colour and solid rock. This beautiful 2tone piece could be used to create stunning jewellery or be appreciated just as it is. This is good quality Australian material and suitable for a colourful collection specimen or lapidary. This won’t last long so get a wiggle on!
Location:
Mt Selwyn, QLD, Australia.Dimensions:
4.5cm x 4.8cm x 4.2cm, 68g.Chrysocolla
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2OSKU: C0403-1 - Chrysoprase, Rock 'n Slabs
CHRYSOPRASE ROUGH LARGE
Beautiful chunky Chrysoprase Rough Large stone. An amazing colour for a rough stone, once polished it will be quite striking. Usually reserved for Jewellers, quality specimens like this are hard to come by and attract high prices. A great Aussie Gemstone. Showing stunning colour of Apple Green and good form. Chrysoprase, chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel. Its best color is normally apple-green, but varies to deep green. The darker varieties of chrysoprase are also referred to as Prase. This material was fossicked many years ago, the location is now closed for fossicking and local sales.
Location:
Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.Dimensions:
14cm x 12.5cm x 3.5cm, 710g.SKU: LGECHRYSO - Rock 'n Slabs, Slabs
AUSSIE ROCK LOT PREHNITE
AUSSIE ROCK LOT PREHNITE. A bunch of rocks from the bottom of our 14″ saw. We cleaned them and they need a new home and possibly some work to turn them into jewellery pieces. The rocks mainly Prehnite and a black and white agate from Agate Creek along with a Chevron Amethyst from NT.
Location:
Wave Hill, NT, Australia.Dimensions:
1431g.Prehnite: Ca2 Al2 Si3 O10(OH)2
Calcium Aluminum Silicate Hydroxide.
SKU: B0361-1 - Rock 'n Slabs, Slabs
GREEN MOSS AGATE SLABS
A pair of beautiful, Green Moss Agate Slabs. A super and unusual display of semi translucent patterning. This material is an unusual green colour with some clear translucent paths. The two slabs were cut from the same rock of very old stock.
Location:
India.Dimensions:
1.1cm x 12cm x 6cm, 157g.
0.8cm x 11.7cm x 6.1cm, 108g.SKU: B0363-1 - Jade, Rock 'n Slabs, Slabs
JADE NEPHRITE SLAB COWELL
Great slab of genuine JADE NEPHRITE SLAB COWELL. Polishes to a very high luster, which is perfect for creating stunning quality Jade mirror finish jewellery and pendants. Two pics taken wet (you can see my hat in one) and a few taken dry. This material will polish to a stunning luster. Nephrite Jade is the toughest of all naturally occurring materials. The colour is very dark green, showing as black in low light.
Location:
Cowell, South Australia.Dimensions:
240g.SKU: D1406-1 - Chrysoprase, Rock 'n Slabs, Slabs
CHRYSOPRASE SLAB LOT 3
Chrysoprase Slab Lot 3 of great coloured cutting material. All of these pieces are good quality B grade, and ready to start working your magic on. An excellent opportunity to turn a good profit for Christmas or beyond. This beautiful stone has a colour matched only by top quality jade. The Chinese have been using this stone as fake Imperial Jade for decades.
Usually reserved for jewellers, lots like this are hard to come by and attract high prices. A great Aussie Gemstone. Worthy for a scoop and selling some that you don’t use to your friends at the local lapidary club for making into jewellery. One pic is shown back lit.
Location:
Marlborough, Queensland, Australia.Dimensions:
Total weight 123g.
Thickness 6mm to 7mm.Chrysoprase:
SKU: B1302-1 - Chrysoprase, Rock 'n Slabs
CHRYSOPRASE ROCK
A beautiful Chrysoprase Rock with excellent colour and a great appearance. While this piece is certainly a cutter, it would also make a great specimen piece kept as is. A super piece, who wouldn’t like this beautiful rock in their collection?. From the famed Queensland locale of Marlborough. If you like it, snap it up now or you may regret it later. Some photos are shown with the rock sun backlit to highlight the transparency and depth of colour of the material.
Location:
Marlborough, Queensland, Australia.Dimensions:
7.2cm x 4.1cm x 2.7cm, 65g.CHRYSOPRASE
SKU: B0310 - Minerals of the World, Rock 'n Slabs
MALACHITE LAPIDARY ROUGH
Malachite Lapidary Rough Rock ready to be crafted into cabs or pendants at your local Lapidary Club. Once this piece is cut and polished it will be a beautiful dark forest green colour, with some banding through it. It is this rich colour and banding that makes Malachite such a popular mineral. It is also a nice soft stone to work with, being a 4 on the Moh’s Scale of Hardness.
Location:
D.R Congo, Africa.Dimensions:
654g.Malachite: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2.
Copper Carbonate Hydroxide.SKU: B0108-1 - Minerals of the World, Rock 'n Slabs
CHRYSOCOLLA MINERAL SPECIMEN
Introducing a vibrantly coloured Aussie Chrysocolla Mineral Specimen. This mineral is great quality, featuring a very beautiful shade of green. The Chrysocolla is solid with what looks like an Iron Oxide top center, some Quartz and a patina of muddy Copper. This is a super specimen which will add a splash of colour to your collection. Chrysocolla has a pretty unique colour to the mineral world, with the only similar hue being of the best quality Turquoise. As with many blue and green rocks, this is an ore of copper, as you can see in the formula below.
Location:
Mt Selwyn, QLD, Australia.Dimensions:
5.7cm x 5.7cm x 5.5cm, 176g.Chrysocolla
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2OSKU: CHRYS1706 - Minerals of the World, Rock 'n Slabs
SNAKESKIN AGATE
We have some unusual Snakeskin Agate Nodules available. So named for the patterns often formed on the surface of the stone. This is cool stuff, when you pick it up you just want to hold on it. Appears in an interesting formation and who knows what’s inside.For enhanced display mounted on a perspex pad.
Dimensions:
Approx. 5.4cm x 5.2cm x 4.6, 139g.Location:
USA.AGATE
SKU: SNAKES025 - Minerals of the World, Rock 'n Slabs, Rocks
VIBRANT CHRYSOCOLLA SPECIMEN
A vibrant Chrysocolla Specimen for your collection. This is a really nice piece that will add a splash of colour to your mineral and crystal cabinet. A little Malachite is also visible on the matrix. Chrysocolla has a pretty unique colour to the mineral world, with the only similar hue being of the best quality Turquoise. As with many blue and green rocks, this is an ore of copper, as you can see in the formula below.
Location:
AfricaDimensions:
5cm x 5.7cm x 4.2cm, 93g.Chrysocolla: Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O
SKU: G0303 - Rock 'n Slabs, Slabs
TIGER EYE SLAB LOT
West Australian Tiger Eye Slab Lot of 8. Features beautiful wide band of shimmery golden tiger eye with hematite and jasper. These pieces are poorly liquid glassed with some shaky hands ready for carving into a beautiful piece of jewellery. A perfect gift for a lapidarist or carver.
Location:
Mount Brockman, Marra Mamba, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia.Dimensions:
5.3cm x 5.6cm x 1.4cm, 76g.
6cm x 4.5cm x 0.6cm, 48g.
4.9cm x 4.5cm x 0.85cm, 50g.
5.6cm x 5cm x 0.9cm, 66g.
8.8cm x 4.1cm x 0.85cm, 76g.
7.4cm x 4cm x 2.1cm, 112g.
7.9cm x 5.5cm x 0.8cm, 81g.
12.3cm x 5.3cm x 0.7cm, 118g.TIGER EYE
SKU: B0107-1