21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco)
21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco) 21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco)

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21201 - Beautiful Azurite Cristals + Malachite Cristals + Pyrite Crystals in Quartz Matrix - Alnif (South Morocco)

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Species
Azurite crystals + Malachite crystals + Pyrite crystals in Quartz matrix
Age
-
Location
Alnif, South Morocco
Formation
Azurite mines near Alnif
Size
89 mm   •    in
Weight
365 g   •    oz
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Description

- Azurite is one of the two basic copper carbonate minerals, the other being bright green malachite. Simple copper carbonate (CuCO3) is not known to exist in nature. Azurite has the formula Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, with the copper cations linked to two different anions, carbonate and hydroxide. Small crystals of azurite can be produced by rapidly stirring a few drops of copper sulfate solution into a saturated solution of sodium carbonate and allowing the solution to stand overnight.
Azurite crystals are monoclinic. Large crystals are dark blue, often prismatic. Azurite specimens can be massive to nodular. They are often stalactitic in form. Specimens tend to lighten in color over time due to weathering of the specimen surface into malachite. Azurite is soft, with a Mohs hardness of only 3.5 to 4.

- Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu2CO3(OH)2. This opaque, green banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures and spaces, deep underground, where the water table and hydrothermal fluids provide the means for chemical precipitation. Individual crystals are rare but do occur as slender to acicular prisms. Pseudomorphs after more tabular or blocky azurite crystals also occur. Baryte or barite is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Baryte is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of barium. The baryte group consists of baryte, celestine (strontium sulfate), anglesite (lead sulfate), and anhydrite (calcium sulfate). Baryte and celestine form a solid solution (Ba,Sr)SO4.

- Pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide). Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide minerals. Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's gold. The color has also led to the nicknames brass, brazzle, and Brazil, primarily used to refer to pyrite found in coal. Pyrite is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds and as a replacement mineral in fossils, but has also been identified in the sclerites of scaly-foot gastropods. Despite being nicknamed fool's gold, pyrite is sometimes found in association with small quantities of gold. Gold and arsenic occur as a coupled substitution in the pyrite structure.

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.
There are many different varieties of quartz, several of which are semi-precious gemstones. Since antiquity, varieties of quartz have been the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings, especially in Eurasia.

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