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Eilat Stone
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About Eilat Stone
Name:
Named for the locality Eilat, Israel
A Mixture Of:
Eilat Stone is the name for a green-blue inhomogeneous mixture of several secondary copper minerals including malachite, azurite, turquoise, pseudomalachite, chrysocolla and others. The Eilat stone is the National stone of Israel, and is also known as the King Solomon Stone. (Caveat emptor: The blue and green stones sold in tourist souvenir shops are generally imported from foreign copper mines, and are not really from Israel, which is of little importance to the tourists but has to be considered by serious mineral collectors.)
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Visit gemdat.org for gemological information about Eilat Stone.Unique Identifiers
Mindat ID:
29162
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:29162:6
Synonyms of Eilat Stone
Other Language Names for Eilat Stone
German:Eilatstein
Other Information
Health Risks:
No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
Internet Links for Eilat Stone
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Localities for Eilat Stone
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(TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species.
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All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
Israel | |
| www.cst.cmich.edu (n.d.) |
| Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai (2000) |
Eilat Mountains, Hevel Eilot Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel