Azurite with Malachite

Last Chance Mine, Casey Hill, Courtland, Turquoise Mining District, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. George Loud; Larry Cross
Small Cabinet, 7.6 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 8:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/02/2025 6:00:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $158

Item Description

An eye-catching combo from near Gleeson, Arizona featuring attractive radiating aggregates of vivid blue colored Azurite measuring to about 6 mm across, associated with medium green colored, velvety botryoids of Malachite on black oxidized matrix. The pale blue botryoidal mineral is most likely Chalcoalumite. A good reference quality specimen of this lesser-seen material from this old Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-Au mine that closed in 1949.
Originally in the collection of Larry Cross.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 16.1.6 AZ.25; 9963. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$158 02/02/2025 5:53:10 pm (CST)
$155 02/02/2025 5:53:10 pm (CST)
$148 02/02/2025 5:52:55 pm (CST)
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$29 01/31/2025 7:53:23 pm (CST)
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$10 01/24/2025 3:50:58 pm (CST)