Azurite

TSNB737
Specimen
Exhibit 1. Azurite; 37 mm.
Exhibit 1. Azurite; 37 mm.
Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood

Specimen Title

Azurite

Associated Minerals

malachite; quartz; smithsonite

Principal Mineral

Azurite

Size

Miniature; 37mm

Location in the Mine

Undetermined

Collection

MGMH; 111537

Entry Number

Specimen; TSNB737

Associated Minerals

malachite; quartz; smithsonite

Description

Lustrous blue-black azurite crystals (to 10 mm), free-standing on a crust of iron-stained smithsonite with sparse quartz crystals. One of the azurite crystals – only one – is extensively altered to malachite.


Neither the provenance nor the location in the mine for this specimen is recorded.