Azurite (old classic) (ex David Burgess Collection)

Item Description

Bisbee Azurites are about as classic as it gets for the species. The material is beloved and seldom available on the market these days. This is a lovely small cabinet display specimen from the Holbrook Shaft / Mine featuring a coverage of attractive, velvety, beautiful rich blue colored Azurite is spherical growths on a thin layer of Limonite matrix. The reverse side of the piece shows a slightly more lustrous, sparkly deposition of Azurite with smaller, more isolated spheres. Overall the piece is in very good shape, with only a tiny amount of bruising, but nearly pristine, save the periphery where it was removed from the pocket wall. A great old time specimen from one of the premier specimen localities in the United States. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.