Chrysocolla

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Introduction
	Chrysocolla is an attractive blue-green gemstone that provides a unique colour to the gem world. The name Chrysocolla first appears in the writings of Theophrastus (315 BC) and comes from the Greek words “Chrysos” for “Gold” and “Kolla” for ‘Glue”, because Chrysocolla resembles other materials used in soldering gold in Ancient times.
Legends & Lore

Crystal healers believe that Chrysocolla helps to bring out the best of one’s creativity by calming and releasing fear, and in expressing feelings, verbally and artistically.
 

Chrysocolla is considered by some crystal practitioners to be a feminine lunar gemstone. Some people have said that Chrysocolla looks like the Earth as seen from space. In combination with its feminine connections, some people believe it is useful in meditating for world peace. The apparent approach is to hold Chysocolla in your hand, and visualize the peace and calm that emanates.
 

A hydrous copper silicate, Chrysocolla is a minor copper ore. Chrysocolla is often confused with Turquoise because of its colour. Chyrsocolla is perhaps more appropriately a mineraloid than a true mineral. Most of the time it is amorphous, meaning that it does not have a coherent crystalline structure. Chrysocolla forms as crusts, stalacites or stalagmites and in botryoidal (grape-like) shapes, as well as inclusions in other minerals. While Chrysocolla by itself is too soft for jewellery, when it appears as an inclusion in Quartz, it is hard enough to polish as cabochons. Very rare, this form of Chrysocolla is often marketed as “Gem Silica” and is one of the most coveted Chalcedony Quartzes.
 

Druzy Chrysocolla is a rock composed of Agatized Chysocolla with a crust of small sparkling Quartz crystals in small cavities. A skilled jeweller can accentuate the coloured swirls of Chrysocolla and the sparkles of the Druzy Quartz, producing an enchanting piece of jewellery. The Druzy form of Chrysocolla is a beautiful robin's egg blue.
 

Chrysocolla is often cut as beautiful greenish-blue cabochons, and used for ornaments such as carvings and figurines. In the 1950’s, U.S. lapidaries voted Chrysocolla Chalcedony Quartz the “most popular American gemstone”.
 

Chrysocolla is a copper bearing mineral and found wherever copper deposits occur. It is mainly found in the U.S.A., Chili, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Australia, Scotland, Mexico, Congo and Australia.