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I am no expert, but I have been collecting Malakite (Malachite) from the Kongo (Zaire, province of Shaba) years ago, and it was always very green with beautiful banded pattersn...... Are These so blue or is it the photo that turns green into blue? (Nothing is impossible, but I have never seen blue Malachite so far).
The photo does make it more blue, I know also about the african malakite (it comes from copper ore layers have been in a mine in Zaire and even the unpolsihed stones are still green. But than also Tigereye is also a product of the copper. Perhaps the combination of Afghan soil gives it a different effect. The dealer is really a semi pressure stone dealer but sometimes he picks up some rarity when he is home.Somebody from that region may know more or recognizes the beads.
ok, we will see perhaps someone else knows more about Afghan malakite... I love the green colour, therefore I collected Malachite and Dioptase...... and others. I have stopped it years ago, as I was spending too much (especially on raw emeralds)....... but kept some.
it has nothing to do with malachite
looks like granit matrix with serpentine, semilarto the ones from bandiagara mountains in mali.
i guess this stone is from china . if 100 afghan, it has to be from herat area. there is many stones mines there with different serpentine colors
on my screen they appear to be light blue? are they truly green?
Marie-Ange they are definitely green but not intense green as we know from the Malakite . It is my camera which discolor it a bit, I noticed it. It is more like a light moss green.
Thanks Ingrid, now they are moss green I have no idea what stone they are, sorry, hope someone will be able to help you.
I had been looking at the other necklace (which I like a lot, especially the form of the beads - it seems some form of slate could be right on the other necklace). This one I would also say rather Serpentine, but definitely not Malachite, even if it is more green in real than on the Picture.