Help identify!

[JmNy]

Got this gem a while ago from a museum and forgot what it was. Please help!

 

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[eyemustdigtreasure]

Don't even remember from whee it was dug, maybe in isolated locations, throughout the globe?
Really beautiful specimen it is - so, let me run and get my book with the color pics, and maybe match....
Anyway, great find!
Maybe the museum can help you out, try jeweler or rock-hound club...?
Welcome to this forum...!

 

[Steve1236]

Kind of looks like malachite with selenite or calcite, how hard is the translucent host, take a steel knife and see if it scratches easily, if its selenite you can scratch it with your fingernail, if it doesn't scratch, scratch what I said and the host is probably quartz. Best I can do from a photo, pretty specimen

 

[JmNy]

Don't even remember from whee it was dug, maybe in isolated locations, throughout the globe?
Really beautiful specimen it is - so, let me run and get my book with the color pics, and maybe match....
Anyway, great find!
Maybe the museum can help you out, try jeweler or rock-hound club...?
Welcome to this forum...!

Thank you!

 

[JmNy]

Kind of looks like malachite with selenite or calcite, how hard is the translucent host, take a steel knife and see if it scratches easily, if its selenite you can scratch it with your fingernail, if it doesn't scratch, scratch what I said and the host is probably quartz. Best I can do from a photo, pretty specimen

I was not able to scratch it with my fingernail but was able to scratch with steel! Thank you!

 

[JmNy]

I'm thinking its quartz with green and purple chlorite! Thank for your help!

 

[Steve1236]

Steel knife shouldn't scratch quartz, I'm thinking calcite with malachite, not sure what the blackish mineral is, maybe manganese but the translucent clear host could be flourite.

 

[JmNy]

Calcite makes more sense. The blackish minerial is actually a really dark purple. The green def seems like it could be malachite