[
UK
/mˈælɐtʃˌaɪt/
]
NOUN
- a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects
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- It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone and malachite inlays.
- If I were you I would sink a prospect shaft below the vertical slide where the old red brimstone and preadamite slag cross-cut the malachite and intersect the schist. Remarks
- Mineralization consists of zinc carbonate (smithsonite), silver-bearing galena (lead sulphide) and lesser malachite and barite. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- Recently, attractive though slightly damaged masses of botryoidal azurite and associated minor malachite have reached the collector market from a locality given as Seabra, Bahia, Brazil.
- Other birds include scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni, mountane francolin Francolinus psilolaemus, Mackinder's eagle owl Bubo capensis mackinderi, and the locally threatened scarce swift Schoutedenapus myioptilus. Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya
- Those who cannot use malachite green on account of its dearness, dye blue with the plant called dyer's weed, and thus obtain a most vivid green. The Ten Books on Architecture
- Further collecting on the mine dump during fall 2002 produced additional cubic and octahedral cuprite microcrystals, along with beautiful sprays of tiny acicular malachite crystals.
- The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green.
- Similar malachite masses weighing up to 3 tons as well as malachite pseudomorphs after cuprite crystals to 2 cm have been found in the mine.
- Other secondary copper minerals associated with the chrysocolla are malachite, cuprite, and tenorite.