Malachite Bracelet, 8mm Beads Godfrey Selig carried for the courage to

carried for the courage to face what frightens you

What modern crystal practice has made of it reads straight from the origin: fire cooled to stone

This one is the open spiral

and let it burn out safely in its holder

Malachite Bracelet, 8mm Beads Godfrey Selig carried for the courage toMalachite is copper. Specifically it is a copper carbonate that forms in the oxidised upper zones of copper deposits, and the green is the copper showing through. Those concentric bands, the bullseyes and the ripples, are growth rings: the mineral accreted in layers over a very long time, and cutting through it exposes the record. This is the 8mm bead on an elastic band. Malachite is one of the few stones whose pattern makes every single bead visibly