Azurite Rough for Sale
Natural Azurite rough is ideal for beginners or professional cutters. Rough is ready to shape and polish or facet or make beads on lapidary equipment.
Azurite is a mineral form of copper. It is
generally a light-blue stone, but sometimes has deep, stunning copper-blue
colours due to the formation of copper carbonate hydroxide. Azurite is also
known as blue bice, blue verditer, or chessylite and is used ornamentally as
well as for colour dyes for paints and fabrics.
Azurite
is known to be a physic stone, the ancient Greeks and Romans revered it for its
visionary insights. Azurite scores 3.5–4 based on the Moh’s Scale of Hardness.
Care must be taken when using Azurite bead because it scratches easily. Because
of this Azurite is sought after more by mineral collectors rather than jewellery
designers.
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