Detailed information
Dimensions
104 x 85 x 34
mm
Locality
Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga Gardiner Range, MacDonnell Region Northern Territory, Australia
Condition
No recorded repairs
The Malbunka Copper mine, formerly called the Namajtira prospect, is a privately mined copper body which extracts for the mineral specimen market. The mine has become famous for its so called 'Azurite Suns', but this specimen is of a new variation, 'Azurite Lips'. The Azurite forms a flat ovulated disk some 5.0. x 3.6 cm and 0.5 cm in overall thickness and is set in a blocky cream-white kaolin matrix, with nodules of massive Azurite embedded in its base.