Green Fuchsite Freeform Palm Stone - 56mm, 87g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 56 x 48 x 23mm
Weight – 87g

This fuchsite freeform features deep, mossy green and light stormy grey tones with inclusions of silvery-gold pyrite flecks throughout and has a subtly sparkling surface. It is a nicely polished piece with a lovely, rounded semi-triangular form, perfect for holding or as a display stone. Green fuchsite is an unusual material rarely seen as freeforms such as this.

Fuchsite is a green variety of muscovite mica, its colour caused by high chromium content, with fine specimens showing rich, emerald colouration and a sparkling effect on its surface caused by fine grained crystals within it. It is often associated with ruby (specimens that are often incorrectly marketed as 'ruby in zoisite') and may also be included with silvery pyrite flecks. It was originally discovered in Schwarzenstein Mountain in Austria, and named in 1842 by Karl F. Emil von Schafhäutl in honor of the German mineralogist Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs. Most fuchsite is mined in Brazil, though it has also been discovered in India, Russia, Madagascar and South Africa. Fuchsite is one of the most commonly misspelled and mispronounced minerals, often mistakenly spelt 'fuschite' and pronounced with a long 'u', when it is correctly pronounced 'fook-site', as in 'book'.