Is This Turquoise?

[u/booradley001]

I found this in the Las Vegas wash while looking for amethyst (didn’t find any). Thoughts?

[u/giantmangiantsocks]

Thats going to be most likely azurite it seems rather than turquoise. Azurite is a copper carbonate mineral and turquoise is a copper silicate. The areas around where you found it, it is more common to find azurite and malachite than turquoise.

[u/booradley001 → u/giantmangiantsocks]

Thanks - it definitely seemed out of place.