Malachite

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From China rather than the much more common ones from Africa - is this not an amazingly weird and pretty malachite specimen? It is tipped with little mammillary bubbles of velvety deep green, on three separate "peaks." This specimen is supposedly NOT from the more common locality of Tongling, but is from Yunnan Province according to the Chinese dealer; though she did not specify an more exact locality. BETTER In PERSON with velvety chatoyance all around the perimeter 8.3 x 5.5 x 5.4 cm