Malachite

Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Large Cabinet, 15.5 x 7.5 x 6.3 cm
Start Time: 02/12/2009 8:15:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/19/2009 8:15:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

This is a RARE large specimen of primary malachite from Mapimi - not that large malachites are rare, but they are rare from this locality, for sure. It consists if thousands of tiny acicular microcrystals of the malachite on a spongey matrix. This has to be from the findof these in the 1970s.

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