- Origin: Congo
- Size: H32cm W17cm D5.5cm
- Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Description: The polished front side reveals cross-section through botryoidal forms and a unique combination of dark and lighter greens circles, resulting from a combination between Chrysocolla & Malachite. Mounted on a custom hand made stand.
- 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.