Malachite

  

Specimen with a tabular azurite crystal, completely replaced by bluish-green malachite (pseudomorph). There is a second generation of fibrous botryoidal crystallized malachite present as well.

Origin: Inspiration mine, Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 28 x 29 x 12 mm

 

  

  

Malachite pseudomorph after azurite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex. Willard Perkin collection

Sample size: 24 x 17 x 19 mm

 

  

  

 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

Malachite on conichalcite

Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Sample size: 2.5 x 1.5 x 2 cm

 

  

 

  

 

  

Origin: Majuba Hill mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, United States

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 2 cm (top), 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

Origin: Silberbrünnle mine, Haigerachtal, Gengenbach, Schwarzwald, Germany

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm

 

  

Malachite on calcite

Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Eaton Collection

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm

 

  

Origin: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, United States

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 4 cm

 

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