Malachite Malachite Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula CuCO(OH). This opaque, green banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures and spaces, deep underground, where the water table and hydrothermal fluids provide the means for chemical precipitation. Individual crystals are rare but do occur as slender to acicular prisms. Pseudomorphs after more tabular or blocky azurite crystals also occur. The stone's name derives (via , , and Middle English "melochites") from Greek Μολοχίτης λίθος "molochitis lithos", "mallow-green stone", from μολόχη "molōchē", variant of μαλάχη "malāchē", "mallow".
The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) and performed by the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra. The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) "The Malachite Casket" (), also known as "The Malachite Box", is a folk tale (the so-called "skaz") of the Ural region collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the several issues of the Sverdlovsk newspaper "Na Smenu!" in September—November 1938, and in "Uralsky Sovremennik" (volume 1, 1938). It was later released as a part of "The Malachite Casket" collection. "The Malachite Casket" is considered to be one of the best stories in the collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by