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JFD63AN9: Touissit is well known for its secondary lead minerals but is less known as a world class locality for copper secondaries, and yet I believe that some of its best azurites would be among the top ten azurites in the world. They tend to have good sharp crystals, like this one, and occasionally exhibit an excellent luster, as is also the case here. The size of the crystals is not very large, but they sit on a white matrix that gives a nice color contrast.
I bought it to the always precise and always affable Hmani Ali, at his home in Oujda.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (±1996)
Specimen size: 4 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.57” × 1.42” × 1.38”
Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”
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