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Pseudocrystals of Malachite after Azurite in parallel growth on a matrix of fibrous Malachite: bright, with very rich color.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2 cm = 1.3” × 1.2” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:110 / US$120 / Yen:12910 / AUD$170

TD87AF0: Malachite after Azurite

A silky mass of flattened Malachite crystals, pseudomorphous after Azurite, with very well defined faces and edges. More elegant than usual.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico
Specimen size: 4.2 × 4 × 4.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.6” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 3.5 cm = 1.7” × 1.4”
Price: Euro:280 / US$307 / Yen:32880 / AUD$450

TP68AJ3: Malachite after Azurite

Aerial group of Malachite crystals after Azurite. They are very sharp and flattened, with polycrystalline growths.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, South Australia Australia
Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.4” × 1.0” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:360 / US$395 / Yen:42270 / AUD$580

TR59AH6: Malachite after Azurite

Group of Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite, with very well defined faces and edges, some of them doubly terminated and with a velvety aspect on the surface of their faces.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2014)
Specimen size: 8.6 × 7 × 3.6 cm = 3.4” × 2.8” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.0” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:480 / US$527 / Yen:56370 / AUD$780

TG99AI9: Malachite after Azurite

This is a group of pseudocrystals of Malachite after Azurite, one of them clearly dominant, with very well-defined faces and edges and a very deep color, partially coated by fibrous Malachite.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 9.1 × 5.8 × 5.3 cm = 3.6” × 2.3” × 2.1”
Price: Euro:480 / US$527 / Yen:56370 / AUD$780

TR66AF1: Malachite after Azurite

Drusy bladed Malachite crystals, pseudomorphous after Azurite, forming rosettes which have very well defined faces and curvatures. They have a very deep color and a silky luster.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2017, page 106
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (± 2014)
Specimen size: 12.7 × 7.3 × 3 cm = 5.0” × 2.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.2” × 1.2”
Price: Euro:1400 / US$1539 / Yen:164410 / AUD$2280

TA87AK4: Malachite after Azurite

Polycrystalline growth of an Azurite crystal completely pseudomorphed by Malachite with satin luster and very deep and uniform color. The crystal sits extraordinarily well implanted on the matrix in which there are also more Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 144), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1981)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 5 × 5.8 cm = 2.8” × 2.0” × 2.3”
Price: Euro:2600 / US$2858 / Yen:305340 / AUD$4242

TF89Z7: Malachite after Azurite

Aggregate of Azurite crystals that have an unusual morphology for the locality. They are blocky, very large and have a very good crystalline development. They are partially coated, and in some areas pseudomorphed, by Malachite. On the back on the sample there are vivid blue, roughly defined, Azurite crystals typical of Bou-Bekker, this fact proving its source.
Bou Bekker, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 7.8 × 6 × 4.5 cm = 3.1” × 2.4” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 3.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:490 / US$538 / Yen:57540 / AUD$790

TQ17V2: Malachite after Azurite

Aerial group of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite crystals, with rounded faces and edges, a very deep green color and silky luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.3”
Price: Euro:220 / US$241 / Yen:25830 / AUD$350

TB47AA2: Malachite after Azurite

Very aerial group of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite crystals, with slightly rounded faces and edges, a very deep green color and a silky luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico
Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.3 × 2.2 cm = 2.6” × 1.7” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.4 cm = 1.2” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:220 / US$241 / Yen:25830 / AUD$350

TA67X3: Malachite after Azurite

Aggregate of Malachite crystals, pseudomorphous after Azurite, which have very well defined faces and curvatures. They have a very deep color and an excellent luster for the species.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.3 × 3.3 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 1.3”
Price: Euro:260 / US$285 / Yen:30530 / AUD$420

TF49Z0: Malachite after Azurite

Aggregate of thick and large crystals, some of them doubly terminated, of Malachite pseudomorphous after Azurite. At the bottom are fan-like aggregates of fibrous crystals with a clearer color.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2009)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.7 × 7.4 cm = 3.0” × 2.2” × 2.9”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.8 cm = 1.6” × 0.7”
Price: Euro:440 / US$483 / Yen:51670 / AUD$710

TX96Q3: Malachite after Azurite

A growth of two divergent crystals, one of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, pseudomorphic after Azurite and with surface silky fibrous recrystallizations.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.1” × 0.7” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:160 / US$175 / Yen:18790 / AUD$260

TF48Z9: Malachite after Azurite

Aggregate of flattened Malachite crystals, pseudomorphous after Azurite, with parallel growths and a silky surface. In some areas the replacement has not been complete and the primary azurite is preserved. A classic from Tsumeb that is with a Jack Crowley collection record card that we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.8 × 2.1 cm = 2.8” × 2.3” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 6.1 × 1.2 cm = 2.4” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:260 / US$285 / Yen:30530 / AUD$420

TL48AJ4: Malachite after Azurite and Azurite

Parallel growth, on matrix, of very sharp Malachite (after Azurite) crystals. They have a silky luster and as an added feature there are small, very bright Azurite crystals. A classic from Tsumeb, very esthetic, that is from the Lee Hogg collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.6” × 1.0” × 0.8”
Price: Euro:340 / US$373 / Yen:39920 / AUD$550

LP28AK4: Malachite after Azurite with Azurite

Very aerial aggregate of profiled crystals of Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite, plus with very bright blue Azurite crystals. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 858), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Shaft IX (Puit IX), Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco
Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.2 × 2 cm = 1.7” × 1.7” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.2”
Price: Euro:280 / US$307 / Yen:32880 / AUD$456

TA91AB3: Malachite after Azurite with Baryte

A novelty at Tucson 2015. Aggregate, on a rocky matrix, of thick Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite. They have faces with a fibrous aspect and silky luster and are partially coated by laminar, colorless, clear and very bright Baryte crystals.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (09-10/2014)
Specimen size: 12.3 × 9.1 × 3.8 cm = 4.8” × 3.6” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:590 / US$648 / Yen:69280 / AUD$960

TJ50AC8: Malachite after Azurite with Baryte and Goethite

Short prismatic Malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite crystals, some of them doubly terminated. They are on a Goethite matrix with small laminar, colorless, transparent and very bright Baryte crystals.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (09-10/2014)
Specimen size: 12 × 9.2 × 3.3 cm = 4.7” × 3.6” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:540 / US$593 / Yen:63410 / AUD$880

TE22AE7: Malachite after Azurite with Baryte and Goethite

Aggregate of short prismatic Malachite crystals pseudomorphous after Azurite. They are very well defined, have a silky luster on their faces, are partially coated by colorless and very bright small Baryte crystals and are on a botryoidal Goethite matrix, which is very unusual for the locality.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (09-10/2014)
Specimen size: 11.7 × 9.2 × 4.8 cm = 4.6” × 3.6” × 1.9”
Price: Euro:680 / US$747 / Yen:79850 / AUD$1100

TQ69AJ2: Malachite after Azurite with Goethite

Parallel growth of two aerial, flattened Malachites after Azurite crystals with very well defined faces and edges and on a botryoidal Goethite matrix.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 52, April 13, 2019 edition, page 6
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (09/2019)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 4 × 4.2 cm = 1.7” × 1.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.3” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:470 / US$516 / Yen:55190 / AUD$760

EH14AE8: Malachite after Cuprite

Aggregate of Malachite replacing dodecahedral Cuprite crystals. The former Cuprite crystals are very well defined, with smooth faces, a uniform green color and are on matrix.
A French classic that is with an old German label from an unknown collector that we’ll send to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 2.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.9”
Price: Euro:80 / US$87 / Yen:9390 / AUD$130

TR73AJ3: Malachite after Cuprite with Calcite

Groups of Malachite crystals (after octahedral Cuprite), coated by a late phase of Malachite microcrystals. They are on a Calcite matrix. Pseudomorphs of Malachite after Cuprite are very uncommon at Tsumeb, and even more so with such large crystals.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.4” × 2.2” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:860 / US$945 / Yen:100990 / AUD$1400

ED27AK1: Malachite xx

Curious distribution of primary Malachite crystals in small parallel groups of sharp, elongated and very intense and deep colored crystals. The primary Malachite is very rare at this locality.
Tazalarht mining area, Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa-Drâa Region Morocco (2017)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.5 × 4 cm = 2.8” × 2.6” × 1.6”
Price: Euro:240 / US$263 / Yen:28180 / AUD$390

TQ91AI8: Malachite xx

Malachite Druse of very well defined primary Malachite crystals that are rich with polycrystalline growths that are bright and have a very deep color. We note that, curiously, the Congo is not well known for its primary Malachite specimens.
The sample is from the A.J. & S. Koster collections and, previously, it was in the Gilbert Gauthier collection. We will send the labels of the two collections to the buyer.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Congo DR (Zaire)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm = 2.8” × 1.8” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 0.5” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:680 / US$747 / Yen:79850 / AUD$1100

TR50V2: Manganese oxides after Helvine with Spessartine

Manganese oxides after tetrahedral crystals of Helvine. On a matrix with small crystals of Spessartine that also partially coat the former Helvine. These samples were initially described as the species “Helvine” but later they were confirmed as pseudomorphous after Helvine.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province China (2005)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 0.9”
Price: Euro:480 / US$527 / Yen:56370 / AUD$780

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