Hello everybody,

If you read my posts, you should have read the post about “all you wanted to know about chrysocolla” and today I tell you all I know about malachite. Chrysocolla et malachite are really near since you can note on this picture : the waves of chrysocolla in the malachite stone… Isn’t it amazing ?

Used for cosmectics for its skin protection powers, we also find malachite in arts such painting since antic period.

Because of its colors variations, sometimes, people give it poetic names such as :

Green of mountain

Soft copper

Green copper flowers

Where can we find it ?

Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, we can find it in the same mine as you find chrysocolla; Some of theses stones have shining blue, turquoise colors waves that makes it beautiful.  These stones are so near that we can note it even in the other name of malachite : also called green chrysocolla, the malachite stone is really near of it.

Malachite often results from the weathering of copper ores

This stone can be found in not less than 9 countries :

 France, Australia, Brasil, Colombia, D.R.C Congo, United States, Mexico, Namiby, Russia  

(sources wikipedia)

Litothérapy

For those who believe in stones powers, here is what people say about malachite :

Malachite is one of the most popular stones for litotherapy and the benefits list is specially long.

anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-spasmodic, antiseptic, but also revitalisantes, soothing and soothing properties of the nervous system.

Finally, it would be benefial for the psyche and the interpersonal skills.

You will have understood, malachite stone is a carrier of big virtues.

Nice country of Congo where there are beautiful stones. Whether they are precious, fine or not, they are astonishing and colorful: Pink Salt of cobalt, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Azurite ….

He grew up in one of these mining villages and tells me how beautiful his village was at the time of his childhood.
He saw them well these beautiful colored stones .
With his friends, he even used some of them to kill snakes because many of them lived over there.
Nobody around him paid really attention to those multicolored stones.

He adds with a smile that he never thought that one day, they would get so much value!
Today at the exit of the village: other children. Below: orange tarpaulins, tarpaulins that marks the limits of a workspace.
There are many groups of children and parents, they talk, they sing, they laugh too, …

However, if you knew how hot it is outside and how hard and cutting a stone can be when it is washed by small hands and one is even not 10 years old!

Hello everybody,

After a few researches here and there, I propose you a small resume of what is Chrysocolla.

But what a strange name is that ?   (thanks to Wikipedia and Larousse)

The name comes from the Ancient Greek: χρυσός κολλα (chrysos kolla), “gold glue”,^[5] in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold, and was first used by Theophrastus in 315 BCE.

Here is for the name.

Where can we find it ? 

Chrysocolla has a cyan (blue-green) color and is a minor ore of copper, having a hardness of 2.5 to 7.0. It is of secondary origin and forms in the oxidationzones of copper ore bodies.

Notable occurrences include Bacan Island Indonesia, Israel, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chile, Cornwall in England, and Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in the United States.

Lithothérapy

And for those who believe in stones power, here are what people say about chrysocolla   : (I disclaim all liability on these last two lines, thank you)

The benefits : Kindness, Harmony, Intuition, Peace and Tolerance.

Astrological signs: Libras, Gemini, Sagittariuses.

If chrysocolla was not already so beautifull,… with so many benefits supposed to be, I would ask for that it’s been offered to everyone on this earth,  wouldn’t you ? 

Have a very good day, everybody !