MINERAL GEM WORLD

CHRYSOPRASE CARVING This is a natural untreated carving of Australian chrysoprase. We bought the rough from the miner and had it sent to China for carving.There is some of the host rock attached to it The weights and sizes are approxomiate

Chrysoprase, chrysophrase or chrysoprasus is a gemstone variety of chalcedony (a cryptocrystalline form of silica) that contains small quantities of nickel. Its color is normally apple-green, but varies to deep green. The darker varieties of chrysoprase are also referred to as prase. (However, the term prase is also used to describe chlorite-included quartz, and to a certain extent is a color-descriptor, rather than a rigorously defined mineral variety.)