Emerald Green Dioptase Specimen

$300.00

Wow! This crystal came out of Greg Cohen’s collection. For those who knew him, he was an avid collector of minerals, fossils, gemstones and… well.. all kinds of natural beautiful items.

I found this crystal just lazing about on his desktop. No, not his computer, but next to his laptop. Actually, yes, it was on his desktop computer now that I think about it. He must have had it there for a long time, expecting to do something about it, but not in a hurry. He was like that. Never in a hurry.

So I pocketed and brought it up with me to the Central Coast. I love Dioptase. I’m bit of an eclectic collector myself. But I had to downsize, so even this small specimen has to go.

Only 1 left in stock

Description

These pictures don’t do it justice, really. I have tried the best I can to take photos of it. I hope you like what I have posted here. It comes from South West Afrca and is the colour of an emerald. Mouth watering if you love green like I do.

The crystals are in good form and shape. I cannot see any dings to it at all. It was in his collection for many years. I’d say around thirty plus years. I’m selling it for the price he had on it way back when.

I have looked it up on the online encyclopedia everyone goes to these days. Alas, I have no more of his wonderful mineral books that we both used as references over the past years. So here is what mindat.org says about Dioptase:

Formula: CuSiO3 · H2O
Colour: Emerald Green, blue-green
Lustre: Sub-Adamantine, Vitreous, Sub-Vitreous
Hardness: 5
Specific Gravity: 3.28 – 3.35
Crystal System: Trigonal
Name: Named in 1797 by Hauy from the Greek for “through” and “to see” in allusion to the visibility of internal cleavage planes.
Type Locality: Altyn-Tyube dioptase deposit (Altyn-Tube), Altyn-Tyube area, Bukhar-Zhyrau District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
For those following the metaphysical path, here is what Melody’s book – Love is In The Earth, A Kaleidoscope of Crystals (Updated) has to say about Dioptase.

Dioptase brings forth and helps one to understand the message that yesterday is but a memory, tomorrow is but a vision and today is real.Living in the moment is the energy of this mineral.

It stimulates the memory of past-lives spiritual attunement. Use of Dioptase over the third eye can help one see to the root of a problem and can help one gain the wisdom to correct the neglect.
The mineral is useful for balancing the yin-yang energy and for aligning the chakras with the ethereal plane. It activates, opens and energises the heart chakra, bringing the energy necessary to the physical body, through the living energy of the heart.

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Dimensions 3.5 × 3 × 2 cm

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