Location: Miguel Vacas Mine, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal.
Zapatalite crust on Quartz with small translucent crystals or submillimetric micro spherules of turquoise blue color. Sample with 3.0 x 2.2 x 1.0cm. Generated in a supergenic enrichment zone of a copper deposit, especially in brecciated quartz veins with other phosphates and copper carbonates (libethenite, pseudomalachite, malachite, azurite, etc.).