Azurite

TSNB968
Specimen
Exhibit 1. Azurite; 27 mm.
Exhibit 1. Azurite; 27 mm.
Image Credit: Sharon Cisneros

Specimen Title

Azurite

Associated Minerals

malachite

Principal Mineral

Azurite

Size

Thumbnail; 27mm

Location in the Mine

Undetermined

Collection

Cisneros, S. & E.

Entry Number

Specimen; TSNB968

Description

A free-standing group of sharp, terminated, lustrous dark royal-blue azurite crystals on a very small fragment of matrix material. Two of the crystals show partial alteration to malachite while the rest of the group is pristine.

The specimen is in the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros.