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 dramatic polished display piece with rich copper-red metallic veining running across a dark, smoky, chalcedony-like face. The polished surface reveals branching native copper patterns that look almost tree-like or lightning-like, set within deep brown, black, and translucent gray silica-rich matrix. Along the edges and underside, vivid blue-green chrysocolla appears in crusty, botryoidal, and pocket-like formations, giving the piece a strong contrast between polished copper-bearing surface and raw mineral texture.

Native Copper is one of the few metals that occurs naturally in a native elemental form, and it has been collected and used by humans for thousands of years. Chrysocolla is a secondary copper mineral that forms in the oxidized zones of copper deposits, often alongside minerals such as malachite, quartz, chalcedony, and other copper-bearing material. Indonesian copper-chrysocolla specimens from the Maluku region, particularly the Obi Island area, are known for their unusual polished slab forms with reddish native copper networks preserved inside darker silica-rich material.

Spiritually, Native Copper is often associated with energy movement, vitality, grounding, and conductivity, while Chrysocolla is commonly connected with calm communication, emotional balance, creativity, and inner wisdom. Together, this pairing is often viewed as both energizing and soothing, combining the active, motivating quality of copper with the peaceful, expressive energy traditionally linked to chrysocolla.

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