Chrysocolla Stone Beads
Chrysocolla
is a beautiful material like the blue agate. This material is best
suited for the formation of gems and beads for jewelry. Chrysocolla
beads have either turquoise or green-blue color. These beads are
banded and opaque. These beads consist of copper and hence, these
have a reddish reflection. These are used in ornamental stones. In Arizona (U.S.A), these beads were valued as a bead-stone for many years. The stone from which these beads are formed are largely found in U.S.A, Mexico, Britain, Peru, Chile, Russia and Zaire. These beads are believed to draw-off negative energy. In the ancient period, these beads were used in soldering gold. Now a days, these beads are also used as gem materials, but this use is not very old.
Chrysocolla Stone
Chyrsocolla is a hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color and is more appropriately a mineraloid than a true mineral. Most of the time it is amorphous meaning that it does not have a coherent crystalline structure.
Chrysocolla forms in the oxidation zones of copper rich ore bodies. Pure chrysocolla is soft and fragile and cannot be used for making jewelry. Druzy Chrysocolla is a rock composed of agatized chysocolla with a crust of small sparkling quartz crystals in small cavities. Chrysocolla can also have a turquoise color and can substitute the more precious stone.
It is available in green-blue color with a luster that is earthy to dull or vitreous and waxy. With a variable hardness of 2 to 4, Chrysocolla is found in regions of: Arizona in Utah, New Mexico and Pennsylvania in USA, Isreal, Zaire and England.
