Manage your weight. Strength training can help you manage or lose weight, and it can increase your metabolism to help you burn more calories. Enhance your quality of life. Strength training may enhance your quality of life and improve your ability to do everyday activities.
Price: With the exception of the small pieces in the lower right photo (typically $5 to $15 each), most specimens are priced in the $40 to $150 range. Larger specimens (not shown) are costly and are a few hundred dollars. The malachite ashtray (lower left photo) sold for $120.
Malachite is generally found together with blue Azurite, and sometimes the two may occur admixed or banded together, forming what is commonly known in the gem and mineral trade as  Azure-Malachite .alachite is also used as a minor gemstone, and is cut into cabochons and fashioned into necklace beads. Azure-malachite is also used as gemstone and has the same gem applications as banded Malachite. Malachite is very popular among mineral collectors, especially interestingly shaped and banded specimens.