Azurite along the Searchlight Highway (or As-I'm-wrong)

Road: 35.761768, -114.904594

A commenter on my last video said he remembers azurite being in one of the culverts on the Searchlight highway near the Nelson blacktop. So I had to see for myself. I need to check the other side of the highway on another day's outing because crawling thru holes has its limits.

Copper Carbonate Hydroxide
Blue Azurite: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Green Malachite: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2

No azurite but I looked at the precambrian/miocene layer contacts for fresh water limestones again. Try number 3. These roads were too washboarded out by wildering side by side 4 wheelers to ever go back this way again.

Gneiss is a high grade metamorphic rock, meaning that it has been subjected to higher temperatures and pressures than schist. It is formed by the metamorphosis of granite, or sedimentary rock. Gneiss displays distinct foliation, representing alternating layers composed of different minerals.

Schist is a type of low grade metamorphic rock in which lamellar minerals, such as muscovite, biotite, and chlorite, or prismatic minerals, such as hornblende and tremolite (asbestos), are oriented parallel to a secondary platy or laminated structure termed the schistosity.

Free 1977 USGS Geo Map and Google Earth KMZ:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_10930.htm

Kenny Rogers and The First Edition on YouTube Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0-7fg8oAO4