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Description: | Azurite gets its name from it's distinctive blue colour. It is also known as chessylite, after Chessy in France, where there are significant deposits of this mineral. Azurite is usually found with malachite. Both minerals are carbonates of copper, but malachite is the more common of the two. Azurite is rather soft, so not generally used in jewellery. In the past it was ground up and used as an artists pigment. Deposits of azurite are also found in Russia, Australia, Namibia and the USA. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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