October 13, 2023
Luxurious AAA grade Silky Fibrous Malachite Display Specimen~72 grams
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Double your traffic. Luxurious AAA grade Silky Fibrous Malachite Display Specimen~72 grams Album This emerald green display specimen weighs 42 grams, and measures approximately 1.5" x 1.75". Malachite is a famous and very popular semi-precious stone. It is named for the Greek word for "mallow", a green herb. Its banded light and dark green designs are one-of-a-kind, and give it a unique ornamental quality unlike that of any other stone. The light and dark green bands are so distictive that malachite maybe one of the most easily recognized minerals by the general public. A popular design of ceramic ware which imitates this banding is named after the mineral malachite. It forms the banding from subtle changes in the oxidation states of the surrounding pore waters, but the exact mechanism is still not well understood. The crystalline forms, such as the specimens we sell are much rarer and only recently becoming available to the average mineral collector. One of its more unique habits is its fine acicular crusts and tufts. Acicular, in mineralogy, refers to a crystal habit composed of a radiating mass of slender, needle-like crystals. Minerals with this habit tend to be fragile, and complete, undamaged specimens can be quite uncommon. At times appearing as a mat of thin hairs or as a carpet of green velvet. Another unusual habit is
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