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Crystals, Minerals & Gemstones
Malachite
“Peacock-stones”
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Malachite was well known to the Ancient Egyptians as a protective stone, often carved as an amulet or scarabs. The stone is believed to be still evolving and will be one of the most important healing stones of the new millennium.
Malachite is a copper ore. Its banded light and dark green designs are one-of-a-kind, gives it a unique ornamental quality with distinctive light and dark green bands. This soft stone takes high polish but dulls quickly with wear and carved in shapes, tumbled stones and cabochons. Russia has large deposits of Malachite and used the stone as an architectural treatment. The room of the Imperial Palace is lined with Malachite slabs and the Russian Orthodox churches features massive malachite columns and altars fashioned of the gem.
Malachite’s crystalline forms are rare and recently widely available to the average mineral collector. Its unique habit is it’s fine acicular crusts and tufts. At times appearing as a mat of thin hairs or as a carpet of green velvet. Another unusual habit is its stalactitic habits. Malachite has a mineral impostor called pseudomalachite. Pseudomalachite is a copper phosphate that has a massive crystal habit and color that are very similar to malachite's habit and color, although the two minerals have different structures. Pseudomalachite means “false malachite” in Latin and is very rare compared to malachite.
Malachite is an impostor of its own - it frequently pseudomorphs the closely associated mineral azurite. A pseudomorph is a mineral specimen where the original mineral has been chemically replaced by another mineral, but the outward appearance is still retained. Pseudomorph means “false shape” in Latin parlance. The transformation is fascinating and sometimes leaves a nearly perfect azurite crystal shape that is actually malachite. Often the transformation is incomplete and leaves a blue/green mineral specimen unlike any other. A gem trade name is used for ornamental stones with this combination called Azur-malachite.
Many beautiful specimens of malachite contain special combinations with other minerals. Such combinations are some of the most colorful mineral assortments in the mineral world. They include such stunningly colorful minerals as dark blue azurite, sparkling black mottramite, baby blue chrysocolla, or rusty red limonite. So common is malachite that it is associated with almost every secondary copper mineral whether they are carbonate minerals or not. Malachite is found with many rare copper silicates such as; halides, phosphates, sulfates and carbonates.
Name:
Egyptians called Malachite “Mafek” as well as other green stones. It is named for the Greek word for "mallow" - a green herb and determined that the stone’s deep green colors resembled the leaves of the mallow plant.
Scientific Properties:
Color: is banded light and dark green, alternating with emerald green, black-green or (if crystalline), just dark green
Hardness: 3 1/2 - 4
Crystal System: Monoclinic; small long prismatic crystals, aggregates with fine needles
Chemistry: Cu2 (CO3)(OH)2, Copper Carbonate
Fluorescence: None
Uses: Mineral specimen, important ore of copper, a pigment, gemstone, ornamental and architectural
Location: Australia; England; Mexico; Shaba, Congo; Tsumeb, Nambia; Ural mountains, Russia; Mexico; Southwestern United States, Arizona;
Associated Minerals: limonite, chalcopyrite, bornite, native copper, calcite, cuprite, azurite, chrysocolla and rare copper minerals such as kolwezite, shattuckite, antlerite, brochantite, graemite, aurichalcite, sphaerocobaltite, clinoclase, cornetite, duftite, liberhenite, liroconite, mixite and mottramite.
History, Myth, Legend and Lore:
Egyptians, 4000 B.C. – mined stone between Mt. Sinai and the Suez – carved into amulets and scarabs and used as protective stone for children. When tied to a cradle, all evil was kept away and the child slept soundly. Engraving the sun’s image protects the wearer from the spells of the evil eye. The sun serves as natural enemy to darkness and protection against venomous creatures. Egyptians hieroglyphs describe malachite as an integral part of their deities’ existence.
The stone is thought to have been the: “Green bed of the sun, Horus on his green and the malachite lakes in which the gods were sometimes said to dwell”.
Egyptians Text – mentions a ring of Mafek which later period in Egyptian history Mafek maybe denoted as beryl.
Mosaic Times – in an effort to determine the Shoham Stone used, the conjecture of J.L. Myers were Malachite’s seems to be in its favor as Malachite material was known to Ancient Egyptians.
Betona, Italy – Malachite was worn as an amulet to protect the wearer from the spells of the Evil Eye. Such stones were called “peacock-stones” which has resemblance in color and marking to the peacock’s tail – usually triangular mounted in silver. As a proof of the superstitious belief – in Etruscan Tomb @ Chusi found a triangular, perforated piece of glass, each angle terminating in an eye formed of glass of various colors. On many of the amulets fabricated in Italy for protection against the dreaded “jettatura” or against the spell of the Evil Eye then the cock’s figure is carved. In ancient times, the cock assures the protection of the sun god, and his crowing was regarded as an inarticulate hymn of praise to the deities.
Middle Ages – saw an expansion of the ancients’ beliefs in the stones’ power. As an amulet (1) would turn aside fainting spells (2) prevent hernia (3) prevent injury from falls (4) powdered and mixed with milk, served as a tonic for colic and cardiac pain (5) relieved cramps and muscle aches when applied directly to the body (6) stops blood flow when mixed with honey and applied to the wound
The Speculum Lapidum of 1502 - Italian Physician, Camillus Leonardus continues to advise of Malachite’s value to new mothers – defend infants from adverse casualties. Modern midwives in Bavaria still prescribe a piece of malachite strung on the necklaces to relieve teething pain.
Modern gem therapists – suggest the stone as a protection from newer hazards and worn as a guard against the radiation generated by florescent lights, computers, x-ray machines and microwaves. It is also helpful in the treatment of asthma, arthritis, swollen joints, tumors and growths.
Metaphysical Use and Properties:
CHAKRA (S): Third Eye, Heart, Solar Plexus, and Navel
VIBRATION: Number 9
ZODIAC: Capricorn, Scorpio
Attributes:
It is a protective and powerful stone, believed some to be still evolving and will be one of the most important healing stone of the new millennium. It amplifies both positive and negative energies, grounds spiritual energies, and absorbs negative energies and pollutants from the atmosphere and from the body. It soaks up plutonium pollution and guards against radiation of all kinds, should be placed at home when one lives near a nuclear or natural radiation source. It clears electromagnetic pollution and heals earth energies and strong affinity with nature and devic forces. When placed on the Third Eye, activates visualization and psychic vision, in the Heart, brings balance and harmony that opens the heart for unconditional love. Malachite is a transformation stone, encourages risk-taking and change, it draws out deep feelings and psychosomatic causes. It breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns.
Healing:
It has been called the midwife stone as it facilitates childbirth. It resonates with the female sexual organs, useful for cramps, including menstrual cramps and treats any sexual disease. It lowers blood pressure, treats asthma, arthritis, epilepsy, fractures, swollen joints, growths, travel sickness, vertigo, tumors, the optic nerve, pancreas, spleen and the parathyroid, aligns DNA and cellular structure and enhances the immune system. It stimulates the liver to release toxins, reducing acidification of tissues. When worn around the waist, treats diabetes. It helps alleviates mental disturbances, psychiatric illness and combats dyslexia, and also useful for psychosexual problems caused traumatic past life sexual experiences. It is recommended that only the polished form be to be used as an elixir.
COMBINATION STONE
MALACHITE WITH CHRYSOCOLLA: This combination symbolizes wholeness and peace. When placed on an area of imbalance, gently restores equilibrium. Mind, body and emotions are balanced when one stone is placed on the third eye and one stone on the solar plexus.
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Raven
of Raven Crystals
Reiki Level 3 & Quantum Touch Healer
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Raven is a Pacific Islander born and raised in the Philippines. She has a degree in Bachelor of Science and Business Administration and attended two years of graduate school. Raven lives with her husband and son in Las Vegas, Nevada. She created an e-commerce business, Raven Crystals guided with love, intuition, and the spiritual magical energy of the Raven.
Raven is a Reiki Level 3 Practitioner and a student of Quantum Touch Healing. She channels Reiki Energy daily for distant healings and practices hands on healing several times a week.
Raven became interested in healing stones when she first became a student of Reiki. She was delighted with the beauty and qualities of the stones and decided she wanted to share them with friends and family. She began purchasing stones and studying the healing properties of each stone. Her desire grew and she wanted to provide unique, rare and hard to find items, as they were the most intriguing in shape and have such radiant colors along with their extraordinary energy and healing properties.
Raven has created an e-commerce business with the intention of sending Love, Light and Peace to everyone receiving Earth’s children from the mineral kingdom. She personally selects each specimen and provides an abundance of information about each crystal and mineral on display.
Raven has created several one of a kind new age products; Raven Energy Wands, the Antahkarana Grid with crystals and minerals and several display ideas found only at Raven Crystals.
To learn more about Crystals and the Mineral Kingdom or learning about Reiki, please contact Raven or visit Raven Crystals.
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