Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Azurite (w. malachite and conichalcite-duftite)
Associated Minerals
calcite; conichalcite-duftite; malachite
Principal Mineral
Size
Miniature; 40mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Latz, C.V.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R28362
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB931
Description
A shard of carbonate matrix, encrusted with sugary white calcite and, in turn, with pistachio-green conichalcite-duftite (composition not determined). A single terminated prism of finely striated blue-black azurite and a single spherule (2 mm) of non-pseudomorphous malachite rest on the matrix.
The specimen is from the collection of Clement Victor Latz, which was donated to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1976. There is no record of earlier provenance or of location in the mine.
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