Archeological evidence indicates that the mineral has been mined and smelted to obtain copper at Timna Valley in Israel for over 3,000 years. Since then, malachite has been used as both an ornamental stone and as a gemstone.
Definition of bane. 1a obsolete : killer, slayerb : poisonc : death, destruction stop the way of those that seek my bane â Philip Sidneyd : woe. 2 : a source of harm or ruin : curse national frontiers have been more of a bane than a boon for mankind â D. C. Thomson.
If a Japanese wrote bane to me, I should immediately wonder if he had not mistyped some other word. To gauge the matter, consider the unlikelihood that the word bane would occur in any English-language life-insurance policy of the 20th or 21st century, but rather killer or, regrettably more likely, cause of death.