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Chrysophase Stone
Color: Vary from Apple Green to Yellowish green.
Hardness: 6.0 to 7.0
Group: Chalcedony Quartz (fibrous form of quartz)
Chrysophase is the most worthy variety of Chalcedony due to its rarity and attractive color. The quartz of Chrysophase has apple green color. Other popular names of these quartzes are Cat's Eye and Australian Jade. In ancient Egypt, beads made out of these quartzes were second most popular beads just after Lapis Lazuli. The name of this mineral quartz is also mentioned in the bible as being one of the twelve gem stones which had been set in the Jerusalem's city wall.
It is believed that these gemstones are extremely good for enhancing the internal grace and inner equilibrium. The colors of these gem stones vary from Apple Green to Yellowish Green and this is due to availability of nickel oxide and hydraulic silicate. These green gem stones are semi-opaque. At present these mineral gem stones are mined in Melbourne (Australia), Russia, Brazil, U.S.A., South Africa, Madagascar, and South Africa.
