A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Azurite with limonite |
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| Description | Azurite (the blue mineral) is a carbonate with composition Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2. Here it is accompanied by rusty orange limonite (a mixture of Fe-hydroxides). Although this sample is drab, azurite, an important copper ore mineral, sometimes is found as spectacular showy samples. This sample is about 7.5 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Utah ▹ Toele County |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-06-18. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #682. |
| Key words | azurite, limonite, utah |
| Tech details | 214 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 766 |
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