Azurite

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Azurite

Touissit District, Morocco

Overall size 9.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm. A fine specimen from the historic Touissit find featuring several sharply defined deep blue azurite crystals with translucent edges interspersed with additional crystals where partial replacement by malachite has taken place showing the complex interplay between these copper carbonate hydroxide minerals, all on matrix. With custom lucite base.