Chrysocolla Cabochon

That is a very nice cab of some good quality chrysocolla!

Mike

I think this material is also Chrysocolla. Not so good as Christopher's but it's from the
10 cent a pound sale, and the stone was about half a pound to start with, so I think
it's pretty good for a nickel rock. In the second photo, if you can see the stone
in front with a flat face cut onto it, that's what we started with. My husband
slabbed it up, and I kind of rushed these 5 cabs, because I wanted to see if it would
polish. The tumbled stone is from a different piece, which started as a small
tumble sized stone already, and which I "hand" tumbled on the cabbing wheels since I didn't
have enough of the same quality to make a tumbler load. I might re-do the shaping on a couple of
those but I was excited to see if the color came out.