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[MAL-ah-kiet'] 
1. a copper carbonate bright green mineral, used as a source of copper and ornamental stoneware; green mineral: "Their have a beautiful home, including a bathroom with malachite inlays."
Origin:
Approximately 1398; from Latin, 'molochitis; from Greek, 'molokhitis lithos': mallow stone, from 'molakhe': mallow, the mineral named for its resemblance to the color of the leaves of the mallow plant. In action:
"When the nobility fled, many hid gold and jewels behind false walls in deserted palaces, assuming they would return. The Hermitage Museum houses many of these treasures, but it's likely that many remain hidden behind palace walls.
The Hermitage is huge, but a good guide will help you make the most of a visit, as it's worth visiting gems like the Peacock Clock, the Malachite Room, Alexander II's study and the Treasure Gallery, including Anna Ioannovna's sumptuous 48-piece toilet set."
Clover Stroud. "Inside Russia," [Churchill described Russia as a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'.] The Spectator (September 22, 2007).
"'It's a powerful landscape,' says Sharon Dynak, the executive director of the Ucross Foundation--the artists colony 10 miles west of Clearmont, Wyoming, that provided one of Proulx's introductions to the state. 'The land, the sky--it has such an impact.'
The film replicates that impact by wrapping viewers in wide-screen vistas of pastures, brooding skies, and jagged mountain peaks. (Ang Lee filmed these, alas, in Alberta for financial reasons, but they are a reasonable facsimile.) In the story, you feel it via Proulx's taut, terse prose: 'The sooty bulk of the mountain paled slowly until it was the same color as the smoke from Ennis's breakfast fire. The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.'
What Brokeback Mountain understands is that, even in 2006, when the world wants to dream about freedom and possibility, it dreams about the West. And that Wyoming is the most Western of the West."
Peter Fish. "Mountains and men," Sunset (March 2006).
"Mr. Polke returned to painting in earnest in the 1980s, exploring new materials and pigments so voraciously that his studio became an alchemist's playground. He began experimenting with toxic substances, he said, because store-bought pigments often lacked the brilliant hues that he craved. He has used everything from arsenic and jade to azurite, turquoise, malachite, cinnabar and beeswax. He even extracted mucus from a snail and subjected it to light and oxygen to produce a vivid purple, in much the way the ancient Mycenaeans, Greeks and Romans created dye for their rulers' robes."
Carol Vogel. "The Alchemist's Moment: The Reclusive Mr. Polke," The New York Times (May 27, 2007).
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