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Aurichalcite

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Anthony Gleckler
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Aurichalcite, 10 cm, from the Kelly mine near Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico. Anthony Gleckler photo.

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Species
AurichalciteAbout Aurichalcite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions10.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Locality
USA, New Mexico, Kelly MineRegional guide →
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In Arizona page 51

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Aurichalcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Aurichalcite
delicate blue-green acicular sprays with fragile crystals; prized for color, rarity, and classic localities like Ojuela, Tsumeb, and Lavrion.
Aurichalcite
Regional guide
Aurichalcite from Kelly Mine, Magdalena, New Mexico, USA
from the Kelly Mine is the quieter classic from a locality famous enough that many collectors need only hear “Kelly” to picture blue-green smithsonite. The best aurichalcite specimens carry the same southwestern palette—powder blue, aqua, turquoise, and blue-green—but in a softer, fibrous carbonate language: botryoidal crusts, compact rounded aggregates, acicular linings, and banded radial growths that can look almost like the mineral has grown in small cushions or rosettes over gossan and silicified limestone.