Peruvian Chrysocolla 6mm Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch Worldwide Gems and Jewellery Black Opal is a naturally

Black Opal is a naturally occurring variety of precious opal mined in Australia

Malachite is a copper carbonate with a bright green color and dark green banding

and variation of the amount of iron in the stone creates a color range from reddish purple to deep violet to light lilac

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the Inca Goddess of Fruitfulness and Mother Earth

Peruvian Chrysocolla 6mm Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch Worldwide Gems and Jewellery Black Opal is a naturallyChrysocolla, a hydrous copper silicate, is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens. It often also occurs with colors of rust, copper, black, white and reddish brown in speckles, veins and brecciated patterns. It is a very soft stone typically found near copper deposits. Chrysocolla was first described by Theosphrastus, a Greek philosopher and botanist who also named the stone, in 315 BCE.