HPJ REFERENCE POINT: ULTRA RARE 8.97 CARAT AUSTRALIAN CHRYSOPRASE
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REFERENCE POINT
ULTRA RARE 8.97 CARAT AUSTRALIAN CHRYSOPRASE
(CENTRAL QUEENSLAND)
GEM TYPE: NATURAL CHRYSOPRASE
CARAT WEIGHT: 8.97 CTS
CLARITY: N/A
DIMENSIONS: 14.89 x 10.72 x 7.85mm
CUT: OVAL CABOCHON
ORIGIN: CENTRAL QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
TREATMENTS: NONE
HPJ’s Rare Earth bring you this extremely rare Australian Chrysoprase from Central Queensland.
Chrysoprase is a distinct gemstone quality variety of Chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of silicon dioxide. Chrysoprase is highly prized for its opalescent minty, apple-green color, which is especially unique and is owed to its distinctive coloring agent.
Most green gemstones are colored by iron (Tourmaline), chromium (Emerald) or vanadium (Tsavorite Garnet), but Chrysoprase derives its alluring color from nickel impurities, which form within otherwise colorless quartz crystal. Chrysoprase is considered to be one of the rarest and most valuable varieties of Chalcedony.
The name ‘Chrysoprase’ originates from the Greek words, 'chrusos' and 'prason', meaning 'gold' and 'leek', respectively; referring to its leek-green color and the presence of golden inclusions. Chrysoprase frequently occurs in quartz veins of nickel-bearing serpentine rocks and in weathered deposits of nickel ore materials
