Azurite

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Azurite is very rarely found at this copper mine, most famous for its cuprite specimens in recent years. A near floater, this specimen is composed of intergrown rosettes of bladed, highly lustrous, royal blue azurite. The rosettes reach 2.5 cm across. There are two very minor points of attachment but otherwise it is complete all around. It has a deep, rich azure color saturation beyond the normal quality for this locality. According to what I have been told, they are rapidly mining through the oxidation zone here, which hosts the secondary copper minerals.