Buy A Grade Malachite Stone Online
Buy wholesale gemstone beads. Malachite is a beautiful, luxurious and powerful gemstone. We will delve into the many healing benefits and lifestyle benefits of integrating malachite stone in your home. Furthermore, we will explain where the highest quality stones can be found, how you can know if yours is real or not, and how best wear it. If you have ever seen a malachite stone, then you know of its natural beauty, but what of its natural chemical properties. Malachite stone is mineral that naturally forms above copper deposits deep in the earth. In most situations, malachite stone is found of limestone alongside other minerals like azurite, calcite and iron oxides. Wholesale gemstone beads for jewellery making. Malachite stone is recognized for its striking green colour ranging from pastel green to bright green and ending at the dark green spectrum. The actual gemstone are found along the surface of underground caves as a malachite gemstone cluster of stalactites and they are cut from these caves in two piece or slabs. All of the malachite stone you find is rather soft with a mohs hardness between 3.5 and 4.0, and because of this most gemstone collectors will treat the malachite stone with the layer of resin or wax to add extra hardness and protection. In rare situations, it can be found in the form of a crystal shape that is bright green but most of the shapes are malachite stone clusters of stalactites that have more of a rich verdant luster. Malachite stone is a copper mineral and the colour is so striking that its very easy to identify malachite from other gemstones. Today the most common source of malachite gemstone comes from africa.