40847: Malachite replacing Azurite - $22 Aouli, Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt Cercle, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco Small cabinet - 8.7 x 6.0 x 4.3 cm 152 grams Specimen status: Available Send an email with specimen number to order Abundant, deep green and somewhat
fuzzy/velvety malachite, abundant on a limonite matrix.
Some of the malachite has a bladed habit, suggesting it
may have replaced azurite. In other places the malachite
habit is more spherical; perhaps this is a second
malachite generation, deposited simultaneously with (or
sometime after) the initial azurite-to-malachite
transformation. Very nice condition.
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