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[Jordi Fabre]

Les Presmyk started a new topic on an other thread, so I copied here his text to open a new topic concerning the Malachite names:

Getting back to malachite and just for the sake of argument, I would suggest there are three "types" of malachite and the word malachite, by itself, does not denote a pseudomorph. There is malachite (massive or crystalline), malachite after azurite or malachite pseudo (yes, I appreciate malachite replaces copper and cuprite and even wood), and finally malachite crystals. The term "primary malachite" is widely and incorrectly used but it describes something that everyone seems to be familiar with and I guess that is why it is used. However, I do not accept that primary malachite is easier to say than malachite crystals.

Les Presmyk

[Jordi Fabre]

Well, trying again to fix every topic on his right place, I copy here the Konstantino's answer to the previous message of Les that I also copied before.
Hell, is becoming complicate! ;-)

On Malachite, they usually refer to 1rst and 2nd type just as Malachite and to Malachite crystals as Primary Malachite. "Primary Malachite" is not easier than "Malachite", but "Malachite" is easier than "Malachite pseudo after Azurite" and "Massive Malachite", which are the most common types and so, more often referred to. (And that's what I was trying to say...). I totally agree with you about the mistaken term!

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-Kostas,