| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Namibia > Azurite and Malachite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 38040 |
| Mineral: | Azurite and Malachite |
| Locality: | Tsumeb Mine, Otavi-Bergland District, Oshikoto, Namibia |
| Description: | Elongated bladed blue azurite crystals on limonite-stained quartz matrix. The azurite has started to alter to green malachite, a process that if it continued would produce a malachite pseudomorph after the azurite. |
| Overall Size: | 5x2x1.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 15-35 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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