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Malachite, Quartz-covered Shattuckite

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Jeff Starr
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Malachite on quartz-covered shattuckite, 5 cm, from the Katanga Crescent, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Joe Budd.

Product details

Species
Malachite, Quartz, ShattuckiteAbout Malachite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions5.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Locality
DR Congo, Haut-Katanga, Katanga Copper CrescentRegional guide →
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collecting In Texas page 244

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Malachite
Mineral guide
Learn about Malachite
vivid green banded crystals and botryoidal forms from copper deposits; color varieties, formation clues, and identification tips for collectors.
Malachite
Regional guide
Malachite from Katanga Copper Crescent, DR Congo
from the Katanga Copper Crescent is not merely “Congo malachite” in the lapidary sense. For collectors, the name covers one of the world’s great families of secondary copper specimens: velvety stalactites, shimmering fibrous sprays, botryoidal masses with rolling surfaces, banded slices from thick stalactitic growths, and rarer crystallized pieces whose needles and blades flash with cat’s-eye chatoyancy under a moving light.