Malachite Crystal Owl Carving

This beautiful Malachite Crystal Owl Carving has beautiful green banded layers and a silky appearance. When carved into shapes, freeforms or animals, malachite is truly a mineral wonder. This would make a beautiful home decor addition, and a great gift for yourself and others.

Malachite is a heavy mineral, due to its copper, and it forms in banded layers, being beautiful when polished, sometimes having a silky appearance. It is cut and polished for jewelry in pendants and beads, but is somewhat too soft for rings.

The Congo is the world's largest source of pure carvable malachite, although it is found in many other countries. Today, less and less malachite is available, because the world's largest copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being bought up by Chinese mining companies for their copper content.

Malachite is composed of 66% copper, plus carbon and oxygen (contrary to rumors, it has NO Arsenic).