Natural Crystalline Botryoidal Malachite Specimens x 4 From Tenke Fungurume, Congo Zambia Excellent polished finish

Excellent polished finish

Our Green Opal from Antsirabe

It stands as the most abundant Lithium-bearing mineral and serves as a secondary source of this valuable metal

Size = 35 - 98 mm | 1

sometimes adorned with delicate black Chromite specks

Natural Crystalline Botryoidal Malachite Specimens x 4 From Tenke Fungurume, Congo Zambia Excellent polished finishPRODUCT INFORMATION General Description Malachite is a green Copper Carbonate Hydroxide mineral. It was one of the first ores used to produce Copper metal. Our specimens are sourced from the Congo which extensively mines the material for its copper content, thus getting specimen grade material is quite difficult. Pliny the Elder, 79 CE used the ancient term Molochitus but by 1661 the revised spelling was widely adopted as Malachite. Malachite has a