Chrysoprase Sphere. Australia. 1.75 inches (4.44 cm) in diameter . ...

Description

Chrysoprase Sphere
Australia
1.75 inches (4.44 cm) in diameter

About the size of a "ping-pong" ball, this small sphere offers a rich and saturated hue of unique, muted "apple green" giving this cryptocrystalline form of Silica its most unusual color. A variety of Chalcedony, often fashioned into gemstones, the ball of bold color with patches of matrix and tiny cavities is intense.

[Scale: 1 inch, with mark at 1 cm]

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