Origin-: Green colour Malachite derived its name from the Greek word Mellow meaning a green herb.

Color-: Beautiful gem with the vivid green colour with its dark to light green lines that run parallel to each other and even in concentric circles. The gem owes colour to the trace element copper.

              Hardness-: 4 on the Mohs scale with a monoclinic crystal structure.

Transparency-: Opaque

Birthstone-:  July. 

Zodiac sign-: Virgo, Capricorn, Scorpio and Pisces.

Occurrence-: Chile, United States, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia, former Soviet Union, Australia, France, Ural, England, Siberia, Russia, France, Israel.

Metaphysical properties-:

• Assisting one is comfortable in changing situations.
• Powerful in aiding with the interpretation and transfer of information that leads to spiritual evolution.
• Excellent stone for identifying and recognising and releasing negative experience especially one that you cannot recall.
• It can be helpful in gaining insight into the cause of specific conditions such as relationships, resentments and anxiety so that you can release them.
• Protective stone in the field of aviation set to stimulate awareness of and prevention of vertigo.
• Physically it helps in asthma, swollen joints, arthritis, tumor, growth, broken bones and muscles.

Enhancement-:                                                                                                    

• Malachite is occasionally coated with the colourless wax rarely impregnated with plastic or other hardened agents to improve durability and appearance .

Note-: In the Indian market the gem is popularly known as dana firang.