Lapis Lazuli Photos   
Cochise College               
Photos of Minerals
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

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Lapis lazuli is also known as lazurite and is a sodium aluminum silicate with sulfur. 
This mineral used to be ground up to make the paint pigment ultramarine.  In gem
form there are often inclusions of small pyrite crystals.
 

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Just credit photos to R.Weller/Cochise College.