Malachite Elephant Carving

For change that's already happening, not change you're considering.

Malachite forms in banded green layers around copper deposits — the colour is the copper, oxidised. Cut across the bands and you get concentric rings like a target; cut along them and you get the swirling pattern that made it a favourite of Russian stonecutters. The Malachite Room in the Winter Palace uses two tonnes of it.

The Egyptians ground it for eye paint and mined it in the Sinai from 4000 BC. It's one of the oldest known pigments, and one of the most toxic — which is the part that matters to you.

Malachite is worked with for transformation and for drawing out what needs to surface. It sits with the heart. It has a reputation as an intense stone, and it earns it.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Important: never put this stone in water you intend to drink.