Dakota Chrysocolla Buffalo CarvingThe word chrysocolla comes from the ancient Greek chrysos, meaning gold, and kolla, meaning glue a name first recorded by the philosopher Theophrastus in 315 BCE, who used it to describe the material goldsmiths used to solder precious metal. That the name has survived more than two thousand years speaks to something enduring in the stone itself. Chrysocolla is a copper bearing mineral, forming in the oxidized zones of copper deposits alongside