Hello rock hounds. A little bird told me today is #mineralmonday so I'm going to run with it. Today's mineral is going to be malachite.
Now, I am not a scientist by any means so this will be a layman's perspective.
I'll just give you a short description and some technical stuff from Minerals.net
Malachite is a deep green opaque gemstone with parallel bands and concentric rings.
Malachite is commonly found together with azurite, a mineral that is blue in color, which makes for some colorful specimens.
Today we are going to look at two pieces, the first is about 2.5 inches by 1 inch and polished real nice.
The second piece is about 1 inch by one inch an is unpolished.
Can you imagine being out rock hunting and finding something like this?
And one last shot of the family together.
Thanks for stopping by on this #mineralmonday and I invite you to post up about your favorite mineral, I'd love to see it.
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Love your malachites. Who knew they were gonna be sooooo green. 😃 I really like the band of blue in the smooth one. Is that the azurite?
Hurray for #mineralmonday!
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Thanks for checking in @dfinney. I don't think there is any azurite on these specimens so it must be the lighting. The polished one does have some really dark bands though. I can't locate my malachite/azurite piece at the moment so I guess that will have to be another post.
P.S. Thanks for crowbaring your hashtag into the post too! :)
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Nice rocks there brother, I’m green with envy...🤣🤣🤣
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Thanks man! You're killing it with the one liners by the way. The last couple of posts have been winners!
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I’m trying.....🤣🤣🤣
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Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold
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Rock on Precious the silver mermaid.
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