Malachite
Banded green copper carbonate from the Congo copperbelt — Lualaba province mines supply massive banded material carved into art objects since Ur. Russia's Ural demantoid-era malachite clad the Winter Palace columns.
Known origins & mines
Lualaba Copperbelt Pits · DR Congo
Congolese copperbelt pits supply virtually all world malachite — banded bull's-eye slabs from Kolwezi tailings carve into the globe-spanning…
Mednorudyansk Urals Mine · Russia
Ural malachite clad the Winter Palace Malachite Room and St Isaac's columns — Demidov-era workings exhausted by 1900 remain legendary.…
Bisbee Lavender Pit · United States
Copper pit byproduct yielded hard spiderweb Bisbee turquoise in deep blue-green — collector grade since the Lavender Pit closed, prices riva…
Kambove-Mindola Malachite Belt · DR Congo
Katanga copperbelt secondary zone feeding the Congo-Zambia malachite carving trade.…
Tsumeb Malachite Pockets · Namibia
Legendary polymetallic mine whose secondary-zone malachite and azurite specimens rank among the finest ever recovered.…