Colors with Undefined Names - Malachite 54. Malachite Color 559 - #0BDA51
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. This opaque, green banded
mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic
crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic
masses, in fractures and spaces, deep underground, where the water table and
hydrothermal fluids provide the means for chemical precipitation. Individual
crystals are rare but do occur as slender to acicular prisms. Pseudomorphs
after more tabular or blocky azurite crystals also occur.
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Shown is a malachite specimen from the Congo | |
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