Beautiful Verdite Sphere

Gorgeous Colours and swirls in this piece. 

Weighs 414g and is 6.6cm

Verdite will access and harmonize your past with your present so that it will not adversely affect your future.

Verdite is actually a trade name for a specific type of green metamorphic rock largely made up of fuchsite and fine grain clay. Fuchsite is a variety of muscovite, which is in turn part of the mica mineral group. This makes verdite closely related to other gemstones such as lepidolite. While that may sound complicated, the stone's beauty is not. The green colors of verdite are a result of chromium (that also gives emeralds their green color), though the stone can also have shades of yellow, blue-green and brown with spots or swirls. Inclusions of rutile, ruby, sapphire, quartz and tourmaline have also been found in verdite. Verdite is largely found in Zimbabwe, though the stone has also been found in other regions of South Africa.