Green Emerald stone (remembering the forests foliages colours), the Malachite is called by the miners « rocks greenery ».
Family of
carbonates.

Natural carbonate of copper.
Malachite can be found in quantity, it explains its ancestral use for decoration in palaces and Russian orthodox
churches (Winter palace of St. Petersburg) are broadly adorned with Malachite.
Location :
Mainly located in Siberia,
Middle Eastern (Israel), Africa (Zambia), Northern Europe (Germany)
Ethnic use :
This special stone is a support of
amulets since antiquity where Romans and Greeks used malachite to increase the radiances of magic drawings engraved on amulets (characteristic probably due to the carbonate of copper ).
By its green colour, this stone is of course linked to the Planets Venus and Jupiter.
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