- Origin: Congo
- Size: H8cm W15cm D10cm
- Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Description: Beautifully polished malachite box.
- Additional information: Malachite, a minor ore but a widespread mineral of copper, basic copper carbonate, Cu2CO3(OH)2. Because of its distinctive bright green colour and its presence in the weathered zone of nearly all copper deposits, malachite serves as a prospecting guide for that metal. Malachite has been used as an ornamental stone and as a gemstone for centuries.