Chrysoberyl - Mine Mineral Market : A186 Für Sri Lanka eine Rarität: Ein olivgrünes Kristallagglomerat mit scharfkantigen, glänzenden und verschieden verzwillingten und unverzwillingten Kristallen, allesamt unbeschädigt.
Chrysoberyl - Mine Mineral Market : A186 Für Sri Lanka eine Rarität: Ein olivgrünes Kristallagglomerat mit scharfkantigen, glänzenden und verschieden verzwillingten und unverzwillingten Kristallen, allesamt unbeschädigt.

Chrysoberyl

€72,00
SKU: A186
Ratnapura, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
A rarity for Sri Lanka: an olive-green crystal agglomerate with sharp-edged, shiny and variously twinned and untwinned crystals, all undamaged.
1.29x0.90x0.70 cm
0.94 g

Chrysoberyl is a diverse mineral which is traded expensively as a valuable gemstone due to its breathtaking fire, its play of colors from soft green tones to strong golden yellow, its high hardness, purity and, last but not least, its rarity. He is particularly known for the cat's eye effect. Chrysoberyl often produces excellent twins, a specialty being the cyclic rotation triplets. Clear crystals mainly come from Sri Lanka and Brazil, collector specimen with fascinating paragenesis often come from Madagascar.