Malachite knowledge

Malachite is an ancient jade material. Malachite English name is Malachite, from the Greek Mallache, meaning "green." In ancient China, malachite was called "green green", "stone green" or "green barley." Malachite has such a beautiful name because of its color resembling the green of spots on peacock feathers. Malachite is a copper oxidation belt that is often symbiotic with other copper-bearing minerals (blue copper, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, natural copper, etc.). Famous places of origin in the world include Zambia, Australia, Russia, Russia, Zaire, and the United States. China is mainly produced in Yangchun, Guangdong, Daye, Hubei, and northwestern Yunnan.

Malachite is a kind of copper-bearing ore, which belongs to carbonate minerals. Its composition is basic copper carbonate with hardness of 3.5−4 and specific gravity of 4.0−4.5. It is glassy or adamant, slightly transparent, and rarely translucent. Because of its emerald green as green peacock tail feathers, hence the name. Malachite is generally green, or deep or shallow, as a craft used by the requirements of pure, bright peacock green, and the texture of a dense, delicate smooth, tough block is better.

It is a bit more delicate than glass. Although there is a "stone" in its name, malachite is hardly rock-hard and stable. Its toughness is very weak, so it is very fragile and afraid of collision. Therefore, Malachite jewelry design needs to rely on exquisite craftsmanship, otherwise, beautiful style, you can not let the stone change according to your wishes, equal to no use. At the same time, malachite can not touch acidic and alkaline substances, it is easy to damage the surface gloss. So, look carefully at the jewelry on the counter. Each piece of malachite at the bottom is made of black agate as a part of contact with the skin or clothing to prevent Malachite from being damaged by sweat or other substances.