Rough Velvet Malachite Specimen

Malachite is believed to be a stone of transformation. Whether the transformation is demonstrated on this plane as balancing pure love and one's well-being, protection, or spiritual evolution, it brings positive transformation again and again.

Malachite clears and activates the chakras and attunes to spiritual guidance. It opens the heart to unconditional love. Encourages risk-taking and change, breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns, and teaches how to take responsibility for one's actions, thoughts and feelings.

Velvet malachite is also called “silky malachite” or “fibrous malachite.” The silky or velvety looking surface is not soft at all. Instead, it is rough, prickly, and potentially even brittle. ... Fibrous malachite is a clump of these individual crystal looking needles of malachite that formed and clumped together.