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Sonora
Milpillas Mine, near Cananea
Crystal locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Superb electric-blue azurite, malachite, brochantite, cuprite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Tertiary oxidized porphyry copper
Source of some of the finest recent azurite crystals in the world.
Keep exploring nearby
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