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TQ46AB3: A novelty at Tucson 2015. Aggregate of very sharp Azurite crystals with a thick tabular shape called “chewing gum” due their particular profile. The crystals are transparent, very bright and have the extraordinary deep blue color (“electric blue”) typical of the best samples from Milpillas. Azurite is implanted on white Dickite coating a rocky matrix. This specimen has been photographed and published as a novelty at the 2015 Tucson Show in the magazine "Lapis" number 03/2015, page 28 and in the monograph 'The Milpillas Mine' of the ‘Mineralogical Record‘ magazine on page 552 in the volume 52, number 5, September-October 2021
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2014)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 1.4 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 0.55”
Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.4 cm = 0.47” × 0.16”
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