- Origin: Congo
- Size: H27.5cm W43cm D14cm
- Weight: 8.2 Kg
- Description: Polished and sculped malachite elephant combining unique deep and turquoise greens.
- 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.