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Azurite or Azure spar [5]: 14 is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. During the early 19th century, it was also known as chessylite , after the type locality at Chessy-les-Mines near Lyon , France . [ 3 ]
Azurite has a dark, rich blue color - its formula, Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, is very close to malachite. The blue color of azurite is from Cu+, while the green color of malachite is from Cu+2. Azurite & malachite almost invariably occur together, and are telling indicators of copper in the field, even in very small quantities.
Josef Fares presenting Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022. The Game Award for Game of the Year is given to a video game judged to deliver the best experience across creative and technical fields. [10] It is presented as the final award of the ceremony and is widely considered its most prestigious honor.
It has been mined for more than 6,000 years in the lapis lazuli district of Badakhshan. It has been used as a pigment in painting and cloth dyeing since at least the 6th or 7th century. [9] It is also mined at Lake Baikal in Siberia; Mount Vesuvius; Burma; Canada; and the United States. [9] The name is from the Persian lajvard for blue. [10]
Azure spar, sometimes azur-spar, is a trivial and commercial, partly obsolete name for several of the most famous bright blue or blue-colored minerals, which also have similar names, most notably for lazurite and azurite, [1]: 14 and also for the less commonly used lazulite.
Blaze in the Deepblue is the newest game on this list, having been released just two weeks ago at the time of writing, but it quickly shot to the top of our list for best games of the year.
Copper Queen Mine Tour, Sept 2008 Classic Bisbee Azurite and Malachite specimen from the Copper Queen mine. This specimen was in the personal collection of Dr. James Douglas, and was later donated to the Smithsonian by his son. [1] The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
“The Long Game” is based on the true story of five Mexican American high school students who were banned from playing golf at an all-white Texas country club in the 1950s.