Mined from: Sesepe Village, East Obi, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia.

Description: This one of a kind Native Copper in Chrysocolla mineral specimen from Maluku Island, Indonesia is a striking slab-like display piece with vivid natural copper patterning across its polished face. The surface shows warm reddish-orange native copper running in fine branching, vein-like lines through a dark smoky matrix, with blue-green chrysocolla appearing along the edges, cavities, and reverse side. The contrast between metallic copper, deep brown-black host material, translucent gray areas, and turquoise-green copper mineralization gives this specimen a bold, almost landscape-like appearance.

Native Copper is a naturally occurring form of elemental copper, prized by collectors for its metallic color and distinctive growth patterns. Chrysocolla is a secondary copper silicate mineral that forms in oxidized copper deposits, often alongside minerals such as malachite, quartz, and other copper-bearing material. Indonesian material from the North Maluku region, especially the Obi Island area, is known in the mineral market for these unusual copper-in-chrysocolla slabs with dramatic dendritic or vein-like copper markings.

Spiritually, Native Copper is often associated with energy flow, vitality, grounding, and conductivity, while Chrysocolla is commonly connected with calm communication, emotional balance, creativity, and wisdom. Together, this pairing is often viewed as a balance of movement and serenity, combining the activating energy of copper with the soothing blue-green presence of chrysocolla.

Quantity: 1pc
With this product, you will get the actual stone in the photograph.