Small Madagascan Amazonite Standing Display Freeform - 82mm, 205g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 82 x 51 x 37mm
Weight – 205g

This Madagascan amazonite freeform features lovely ocean blue colour with white line details and has a beautifully shimmering surface. It has been expertly shaped to a unique, sculptural freeform, polished to a high lustre and cut to stand, and due to its small size makes an ideal display piece for a desk. Whilst it stands nicely when not disturbed, its bottom is not entirely flat so this freeform should be placed where it will not be knocked.

Amazonite, also known as 'amazonstone', is a translucent to opaque layered form of microcline feldspar popular with gemstone enthusiasts for its teal blue and sea green colours, which are caused by minute traces of lead and water in the crystal structure. Many specimens show white lines and alternating streaks, and some display an impressive, shimmering schiller effect on their surface in a similar fashion to labradorite. It was named after the Amazon River in South America by Spanish explorers, though rather confusingly was never discovered there, instead having been misidentified for a green stone previously found in the Amazon basin. Amazonite has frequently been mistaken for jade, however, jade does not have white streak patterns and is glossier. This mineral is found in limited deposits worldwide, although noteworthy localities of amazonite are Russia, Myanmar, India, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Brazil, and the United States (Colorado and Virginia).