Fuchsite Quartz Thick Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)

Description

Fuchsite Quartz

This is a polished on one face slab from the Mount Regal mine, Karratha, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia. The mine is located 12 kilometres south-west of Karratha.

This is marketed locally as ‘Karratha jade’, although it has no relationship to true jade or jadeite. Fuchsite is a green Mica found in Quartz. It can often be included with trace minerals of Copper or Chromium.

The Mount Regal Mine is a chrome chalcedony mine, hosted on a ridge of folded, moderately dipping Archean beds of green, brittle, chrome rich chert near ultramafic rocks. The green chert beds are massive, extremely fine grained quartz-sericite-kaolinite, with fuchsite, which colors the rock green, and vein quartz and quartz-chalcedony stringers.

Weighs 20.6oz or 1.29 lbs (585g) and measures 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.82 inches (15 x 10.8 x 2.1 cm)