Got the Blues!

Mineral Matters #388

This week’s Facebook Mineral of the Week Group’s selected theme is the minerals linarite, caledonite and brochantite.

Linarite blue is pretty close to being my favourite colour. This specimen was originally in the late Joan Lamond’s collection, and is particularly special in that you can see the reflection of the linarite in one of the cerussite crystals.

Below: Linarite and cerussite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Width of view 6.5mm.