Shattuckite with Quartz and Chrysocolla - Namibia
🔬 Scientific Description
This impressive specimen features a lustrous layer of vivid blue shattuckite crystals intergrown with translucent quartz. A thin underlying band of chrysocolla adds a gradient of color from deep azure to soft aqua-green.
The surface displays fine quartz druse over a botryoidal copper-silicate structure, highlighting the mineral’s secondary origin within oxidized copper veins. Its linear shape and layered zoning indicate steady silica and copper deposition over time, making it a textbook example of Namibian copper silicate mineralization.
Locality: Namibia
This specimen comes from the Kaokoveld, in Namibia’s Kunene region.
Species: Shattuckite with Quartz and Chrysocolla
Treatment: None
Dimensions: 8.9 × 6.5 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 175.8 g
🪶 Holistic & Energy Meaning
This crystal embodies clarity, truth, and communication through harmony. Shattuckite enhances intuitive insight and sincerity, while quartz amplifies focus and energy flow.
Chrysocolla’s gentle vibration is associated with calm and with expressing truth with compassion.