Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Azurite is a common copper carbonate mineral that occurs in the oxidised zone of many copper deposits. It can attain crystals of many centimetres in size. They can be lustrous or dull. Sometimes crystals can be partially or completely pseudomorphed to malachite. Azurite is very common as crusts or blue stains on rocks. Blue azurite discs (“Suns”) on white kaolinite are found at Malbunka, Northern Territory.
Selected Australian Occurrences:
- Paddy’s River Mine, Australian Capital Territory.
- Broken Hill, New South Wales.
- Mineral Hill, New South Wales.
- Cobar, Girilambone and other copper deposits, New South Wales.
- Malbunka, Northern Territory.
- Cloncurry, Mount Isa and Gunpowder Regions, Queensland.
- Red Dome Mine, Queensland.
- Burra, South Australia.
- Sir Dominic Mine, South Australia.
- Thomson River, Victoria.
- Teutonic Bore, Western Australia.
