Azurite

  
Origin: Touissit, Oujda, Morocco
Sample size: 25 x 35 x 42 mm
 
  
Azurite on malachite
  
A large blocky azurite crystal, now replaced by malachite, on a small amount of matrix. There is a final generation of lustrous blue azurite crystals scattered about this pseudomorphed crystal.
Origin: Anhui, Hubei Province, China
Sample size: 6 x 3.5 x 4.5 cm (top), 3.3 x 2.5 x 5.2 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
 
Origin: Blue Grotto Prospect, La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah, U.S.A.
Sample size: 27 mm in diameter
 
  
 
  
 
  
Azurite on malachite
Origin: Morenci mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm (top), 24 x 19 x 12 mm (2nd row), 2.7 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Touissit, Oujda, Morocco
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 3 cm
 
  
  
Azurite with calcite and minor green malachite
Origin:  Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
Ex. Martin Zinn collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 1.2 x 4.3 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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