Azurite

Field of view: 3 mm. Groups of azurite. The blue parts are aggregates of fine tabular azurite. The basement is gangue quartz encrusted with thin brown limonite.

Recovered from a quartz vein in a meteoric oxidation zone of a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit associated with andesitic-basaltic pyroclastic rocks of a oceanic arc subjected to propylitization alteration.

Azurite from this location was described in 1982.