Azurite and Malachite

65 x 56 x 27 mm overall

Rich-green Malachite and bright-blue Azurite, both with great luster and fine botryoidal form make up this aesthetic, colorful and showy small cabinet specimen from this uncommon Utah locality. The Azurite is comprised of numerous 2 mm crystals. The reverse consists of pale-bluish-green matrix richly covered with Azurite, which is also attractive in its own right. Quality Malachite and Azurite specimens from the Apex Mine were produced in the early operations of this mine, and are quite rare. This specimen is exceptional for the size and richness, as well as the aesthetics of the contracting blue and green botryoidal clusters. It sits nicely for display and only has one trivial bruise. Choice for the locality, this is from the A.G. Boynton collection. Boynton was a mining engineer circa 1910-1920, and City Manager of Boulder City, Nevada in the mid-1940s. He assembled a nice collection of rare specimens from the localities of the 1910s to the 1940s.

ex. A.G. Boynton Collection;
ex. Bob Griffis Collection