Sonora Sunrise
Unregistered commercial name for a combination of red cuprite with teal chrysocolla. That color combination is primarily cut into ornamental stones that suggest a green…
Tag: chrysocolla
Quantum Quattro
Commercial name for a combination of (smoky) quartz with chrysocolla, malachite, shattuckite and dioptase from Namibia. In the examples studied, the quartz, chrysocolla, malachite and…
Peruvian Quantum Quattro
Commercial name for a combination of quartz with malachite and chrysocolla from Peru. Marketed in 2019 as “a very different variety from the already known…
Malacolla / Malacholla
New unnecessary commercial name for … quite surprisingly … a combination of malachite and chrysocolla. Two secondary copper minerals that occur very frequently together. Robert…
Gem Silica™
Unregistered commercial name for a combination of quartz and chrysocolla. Robert Simmons (Heaven & Earth) coined the name for this “rare” material that he describes…
Crimson Cuprite™
Commercial unregistered name for a combination of chrysocolla and cuprite from Mexico. Do you have a nice example of this stone and would like to…
Collamalcite
Unnecessary compound name for a combination of blue chrysocolla and green malachite in a complex pattern in a matrix of white rock. Introduced by Robert…
Chryso quartz
Commercial name for the combination of chrysocolla in quartz. Do you have a nice example of this stone and would like to provide a photo…
Andean opal (blue and pink)
Commercial name for “common” opal originating in the Andes, specifically Peru. Therefore also called Peruvian (blue/pink) opal. Available in the natural colors pink and blue.…
