Large Green Fuchsite Sphere - 95mm, 1255g

Locality - Madagascar
Size – 95mm
Weight – 1255g

This large fuchsite sphere displays pleasant mint green colour and has an excellent glossy polish. It is a sizable sphere weighing in well over one kilogram and measuring 95 millimeters in diameter, ideal for use as an eye-catching natural decor piece. A wooden display stand as shown will be sent with this sphere.

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'.