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Posted: 20 Nov 2014

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Malachite (green) and azurite (blue)

Malachite (green) and azurite (blue)
Secondary copper carbonate minerals, from near-surface oxidation. On a displayed boulder at the mining museum in Jerome, AZ, a historical copper camp. I suspect there's also some chrysocolla, a secondary copper silicate that looks very similar to malachite.

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 Pam J
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Examples like this cause me great envy !!!!!!

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10 years ago.
 slgwv
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Well, it was good enough to get put in a museum! ;) It's actually not uncommon to find little occurrences of malachite--azurite, tho, is rarer!
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
 Pam J
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Yes.... Mal is my favourite mineral.. and i have a few nic small pieces.. but azurite... thats harder to conm by nice pieces.

Used to go over the old spoil heaps in Cornwall at the ancient tin and lead and copper mines and find a few decent copper bits from time to time.
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
 slgwv
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Old spoil heaps are a classic collecting area!

The problem with azurite is that it's not the stable form under surface conditions, so over time it inverts to malachite. Probably lots of the malachite splashes we find exposed started as azurite.
10 years ago.
 Gudrun
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I have a bit of malachite from Chile but have never come across azurite!
10 years ago.

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