Eilat stone
Eilat Stone (Hebrew: אבן אילת) derives its name from the city of Eilat where it was once mined. It is a green-blue heterogeneous mixture of several secondary copper minerals including malachite, azurite, turquoise, pseudomalachite, chrysocolla. The Eilat stone is the National stone of Israel, and is also known as the King Solomon Stone.
Eilat stone earrings
Eilat Stones from copper mines of King Solomon.
Slice of Eilat stone
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