This gorgeous, polished malachite jewelry box comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A wonderful gift for mineral-lovers! Malachite is a bright and dark green banded copper carbonate mineral Cu2CO3(OH)2. From antiquity and until recent times, malachite has been prized as a decorative stone, gemstone, and was even used as a pigment.

The length of this box is 6.2 inches or 15.25 cm, the height is 1.75 inches or 4 cm and the width is 4 inches or 10.25 cm, and it weight 1lb 15 oz or 879 grams.