3.8" Druzy Azurite Crystals on Bladed Barite - Morocco

This 3.8" wide specimen features a druze of azurite crystals on a bladed barite crystal encrusted matrix, collected from Morocco.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Azurite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral best known for its beautiful and vibrant blue appearance. Azurite typically forms in nodular formations with other colorful, copper-rich minerals. It is a secondary mineral that precipitated in pores, crevices, and caverns from water with high concentrations of carbon dioxide.

Azurite and malachite are known to form in union with each other since their chemical makeup is very similar. In fact, the presence of more or less water in the location of formation is enough to determine whether an abundance of malachite over azurite, or vise-versa, will accumulate.

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SPECIES
Azurite & Barite
LOCATION
Aouli, Mibladen, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
SIZE
3.8 x 3.3"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#217817