Chrysoprase Necklace

Unlike emerald which owes its good-looking green color to the attendance of chromium, the color of Chrysoprase is due to its trace amounts of nickel in the structure. The nickel reportedly occurs as the platelets of the talc-like gem stone Willamette. Chrysoprase results from the deep weathering and lateralization of nickeliferous serenities or additional ultramafic ophiolite rocks. In the Australian deposits, Chrysoprase occurs as veins and nodules with its brown goethite and iron oxides in the magnetite-rich saprolite below an iron and the silica cap.

Healing ability: Chrysoprase is the rarest member of the Chalcedony family that is found in the U.S., Brazil, and Australia. Chrysoprase is believed to prevent depression and also to improve equilibrium, balance, communication, eloquence, hope, youthfulness, and a higher consciousness. Legend says that Chrysoprase is a protector of young animals and young children.