Malachite: One Mineral, Many Shapes

Malachite appears as rounded masses, fine projections, sharp crystals and green bands. This episode connects those forms to the Met's scholar's rock, a desk-sized stone interpreted as a miniature mountain. Explore our crystals and gemstone jewelry: https://veilandsage.com/ Want videos like this for your business, product, or idea? Get a custom quote from Formation Content Studio: https://formation-content-studio.ente... Veil & Sage owns this channel. External specimen and museum photographs are not verified shop inventory. No museum or photographer affiliation is implied. Narration is generated; music is an original project composition. Sources: Handbook of Mineralogy, https://handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs... ; The Met, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... . Further reading: Rocks & Minerals (DK Handbooks), Chris Pellant, English paperback (2021). Its photographs and mineral characteristics offer context for recognising forms; it is not authentication of the photographed specimens. No hands-on test or endorsement is claimed. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465497749?... (paid link) Photo credits. Creative Commons (CC) licences apply to the identified photographs; Attribution (BY) and Share Alike (SA) are retained below. Creative Commons Zero (CC0) denotes the stated public-domain dedication. Complete source photographs are displayed proportionally at or below source resolution, without crop, colour change, retouching, motion or generated repair. Matte, captions and credits are outside source pixels. Source photographs are unchanged components of this collection; no whole-film relicensing claim is made. Polished-Malachite2.jpg — Calibas. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . Tumbled malachite gemstone 1.jpg — W.carter. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . Malachite polie (République démocratique du Congo).JPG — Parent Géry. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . Botryoidal Malachite (7.7 mm), Katanga Province, Zaire (8459820730).jpg — James St. John. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . 2013-03 Malachit aus Gumeschewsk, Ural anagoria.JPG — Anagoria. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . 21Malachit schulenburg hg.jpg — Hannes Grobe. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . 1050 Malachit - Podlipa.jpg — Mineralysk. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . 1235 Malachit - Piesky.jpg — Mineralysk. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdoma... . Calcite-Malachite-1130-02a.jpg — Robert M. Lavinsky. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... . CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... . Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain, China, 19th–20th century; malachite; 2021.95a,b. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Robert D. Mowry and Arthur W. Asbury, in memory of Carol Stephens, 2021. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... . CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... .