Malachite

|| ||   ||  ||> Draft Saved at 2:15 pm ||  || file:///Users/student/Desktop/6bzb-malachite-cab5.jpg  Malachite is a popular stone which has light and dark green banded areas. Many beautiful specimens of malachite contain special combinations with other minerals, such as azurite, cuprite, or chrysocolla. Malachite can be found in Zaire, USSR, Germany, France, Chile, Australia, Arizona and New Mexico/USA. It ranges between 3.5 to 4 on the [|Mohs scale] of hardness. By Clayton Naugle Information from http://www.bernardine.com/gemstones/malachite.htm
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