Watch a video of this specimen by following the Vimeo link below: https://vimeo.com/940668666 Bouque Payrol is a mine exploited since prehistoric times and very active in the Roman period: the name derives from the Latin 'cuprum peyrolenc', which refers to a copper 'suitable for boiler making'. Today, the mine is protected for archeology reasons and trespassing is strictly forbidden. You have here a remarkable specimen of malachite from old discoveries featuring a 4.7 cm long trail of botryoidal green malachite on a diaclase surface of a quartzitic vein rock. The back side was sawn to remove excess matrix.