Azurite & Malachite

Gemstone Quality Standard

About Azurite & Malachite

It is a very rare event to find small pockets of Azurite and Malachite together as cuttable material. it mostly consists of thin layers surrounded by a brown rock matrix.

Color

Dark blue Azurite and dark green malachite within brown matrix material.

Rarity

Very rare

Availability

We have less than 1 Kilogram of this material. We are not selling rough material. We are not providing this material for custom cutting.

You can obtain jewelry with this material at retail price.

You can buy our finished top-quality cabochons for jewelry makers.

National and international shipping from our US-based warehouse.

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Polishable

The experienced gem cutters of Gemrock can provide top-quality polish.

Cutting Quality

Challenges:

It is an extremely brittle material with a high rate of loss by breakage.

Premium-cutting-quality is characterized by:

a polished backside
a sharp unchipped edge between the backside and the bezel
a very straight and even highly polished bezel
a sharp unchipped edge between the bezel and the dome
a well-shaped dome, not showing any deformation
Top-quality polish

Pricing

Adequate pricing must take into account the cost factors to obtain top-quality cabochons:

Nearly impossible acquisition of the material.
Very high rate of loss due to breakage of brittle material.
A usual material loss of approximately 90 % of the selected material during the cutting and shaping process.
The level of experience required by a cutter to produce a flawlessly shaped and highly polished cabochon from such a soft material.

You can buy our finished top-quality cabochons for jewelry makers.

National and international shipping from our US-based warehouse.

Buy your Azurite Cabochons here

We are not producing anything less than premium jewelry-grade cabochons from this material. However, as this is a very difficult material to cut, there are always some cabochons with minor flaws that disqualify for our Premium quality. We are going to offer those at reduced prices in special offers:

Cutting Quality:

Straight bezel, 3 mm high
Flat and perfect dome (1-3 mm high)
The edges between the bezel and dome, as well as the bezel and backside, are sharp and crispy, with nearly no chips on the lower edge.

Additional quality (AAA+): Backside polished to 3000 grit

Pricing:

Recommended Retail Price: None – only as part of jewelry pieces

We are not producing (A) jewelry-grade intentionally from this rare material. However, as it is a very complicated material to cut there are always some cabs coming out that do not fit our quality standards. Those cabochons will be sold by just at lower prices in special offers.

We are not producing AA jewelry-grade intetnionally from this rare material. However, as this is a very difficult material to cut there are always some cabochons with minor flaws. We are going to offer such cabs at reduced prices in special offers.

Basiacally: this material is not available

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