DIOPTASE ON CALCITE — CONGO COLOR!

DIOPTASE ON CALCITE — CONGO COLOR!

This piece is an absolute knockout. Brilliant, intensely saturated emerald-green Dioptase crystals rise dramatically from a sparkling bed of Calcite, with Plancheite adding those beautiful contrasting blue accents across the matrix.

The Dioptase is the star here—the color is RIDICULOUS. Deep emerald green with incredible luster and transparency, standing tall above the lighter matrix and immediately pulling your eye in. Then you turn the specimen around and discover an entirely different world of texture, blue Plancheite, Calcite and flashes of green throughout.

I love specimens like this where the associations and contrast make the entire piece feel like a miniature landscape created by nature.

Dioptase with Calcite & Plancheite
Congo, DRC
Intense emerald-green color
Beautiful contrasting blue Plancheite

Earth’s art at its finest.

Dioptase specimen.