Good day dear Hive friends, as always I hope you are all well and would like to welcome you to my new post! Today I would like to bring a mineral a little closer and hope you can expand your knowledge a little.
Here you can see pictures of a specimen of pseudomalachite, which is also a representative of the mineral class of vanadas, phosphates and arsenates. As the name might suspect, it has something to do with the mineral malachite, but this is not the case and it is an independent mineral and received the name due to strong similarity to malachite. It was first named by the mineralogist Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (1782 - 1859) and it is a rather rare mineral which is of hydrothermal origin and is usually created by weathering in copper-containing deposits. As with malachite, the color is green, but it can also have black spots and the most important places of discovery are Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Germany or England. Even before it had received the official name, it was already known and was used as a pigment for the production of green colors and those who are generally interested in this topic will find here a contribution from me in which I have already shed more light on the importance of minerals in art history. As can be seen from finds, the ancient Maya already used the mineral to produce paints for wall paintings or to paint other objects with it. Even in the Middle Ages it has achieved a high priority and was used for artistic purposes and theoretically it is also interesting as an ore due to the high content of copper, but because of its rarity it is not used. Sometimes it is also processed into jewelry or other decorative articles and it is particularly interesting among mineral collectors.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about minerals! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens!
