Green Fuchsite Freeform Palm Stone - 58mm, 100g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 58 x 43 x 29mm
Weight – 100g

This fuchsite freeform features vivid, emerald green and semi-translucent, icy white tones throughout with hints of coal black and clay red. It has inclusions of silvery-gold pyrite flecks and a subtly sparkling surface. This piece has been nicely polished and rounded with a 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'.