This specimen has heavy coverage of lustrous, drusy, deep blue azurite
crystals. The
malachite
coloured matrix of rhyolite offers up a striking contrast to the azurite.
Origin: Morenci, Graham County, Arizona
Sample size: 17 x 10x 9 cm
Origin: Guichi, Chizhou, Anhui Province, China
Sample size: 6 x 4.7 x 1.8 cm
Ex-Bill Birnie Collection
Azurite with
cerussite from the 1992 Easter pocket. Ex. Gebhard collection
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 2.2 cm (top/2nd row), 3.1 cm (3rd row), 12.4 x 7.5 x 3.8
cm (4th/bottom row
Azurite with
malachite
Origin: Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco
Ex. Edwards Minerals coll.
Sample size: 3.0 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
Origin: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. Edwards Minerals coll.
Sample size: 8.7 x 6.2 x 4.1 cm
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