Chrysoprase or Chrysopal? #thefinders
Chrysoprase or Chrysopal? #thefinders
I need your help! I recently purchased some chrysoprase from Peru on eBay. After receiving it I noticed it looked very similar to what some call chrysopal. I’m not very familiar with chrysopal so I was hoping someone could tell me any information they have and if you believe that is what this is versus chrysoprase. I’m really leaning towards chrysoprase but I’m just not positive. Please comment below if you have any ideas! Thank you! 😎🐾
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I bet Thirst Fast will know how to help you sort it out. 😉
What ever the rocks are they are beautiful. I hope you will show us the rocks when they are all polished up. Where did you get these from? I would like to get some never heard of this stuff.
Opal should have a vitreous conchoidal fracture like glass, whereas chrysoprase should have a waxy or granular fracture luster
They look amazing my friend
Price might also help identify them as chrysoprase because it’s been said that the genuine stuff is quite valuable when compared to your typical agate, jasper and carnelian
If they had an abnormally low price ($5 instead of $500), for what they ACTUALLY are (the rarest chalcedony after gem silica) then they’re probably not real chrysoprase
I really want one of those perfect pieces that are nice and light green and just barely transparent. Those are the best looking ones to me
Looks to me like it is chrysoprase. I *think* it’s been formed in a chemical sedimentary environment. The white around the edges, the granular texture (also more commonly around the edges), and those ~botryoidal formations all suggest various stages of chemical reactions during replacement. Picture a fluid seeping into a crack in something that reacts to that fluid. As it seeps in, it reacts initially from edge to edge in the crack. But as the crack spreads, eventually the fluid near the middle isn’t in contact with the edges, so it remains "purer". If the solution at the edges ended up dehydrating, you get the white powdery texture. If it kind of jellied (at work a lot of the time while dissolving rocks in caustic soda if I add acid to that fluid, I get a yellow fluid that turns to jelly over the course of about 15minutes, but not a solid mass, a bunch of little jelly-beans) you get the granular texture. I’d need to know more about the chemistry of the host rock, but I’d assume it’s carbonate.
It looks like you did get some nice, workable material there. Hope it polishes up nice!
Its nothing your going to want to keep, I will stop by and properly dispose of it for ya
Here it’s easy peasy. Chalcedony comes in many forms and called many things, chrysoprase is green chalcedony colored by nickel, gem silica or chrysocolla is green chalcedony colored by copper, and is rare, and valuable
It looks like praise opal
How is the bruising on the tumble? IE turning white or cloudy or whitish. Think that could maybe assist you on
most definitely chrysoprase. gem silica would be a MUCH deeper blue. if correct, will be a 7 on mohs scale.
amazing colour!! wow! unfortunately I cant help with ID but thanks for sharing your haul! 🙂
My totally unqualified opinion is chrysoprase and chrysopal. The pieces with chalky exteriors may be pal while the darker clearer dark rinded pieces are probably prase. Both are very nice stones and you look to have some very nice pieces in the mix.
When ever I get stumped on anything thing in life I resort to WIKI . WIKI don’t recognize the word chrysopal. I am sure someone will have the answer for you. I know one thing they sure are beautiful 🙂
There should be a big difference in weight since true chrysoprase is a chalcedony. It looks like chrysopal that you have there.
Did you ever figure out what this beautiful material is?
Oh my those are beautiful. I have peruvian blue opal thats not what i have, looks like chrysoprase, or amazonite. Man im puzzled.
Ok I need some of that in my life regardless of what it is…
I’m happy to trade so Iowa rocks
I’d like to see how some of those turn out once they’ve been tumbled!
It is chrysoprase but you can get prase opal similar looking to this . Opal will have conchoidal fractures to it and will be 5-6.5 hardness so quartz can scratch it . These are some really nice pieces you have !
If it’s from Peru it’s very likely Peruvian opal