AURICHALCITE, +- ROSASITE, HEMIMORPHITE, HYDROZINCITE

Los Azules Mine, 345 km east of Copiapo, Chile

Excellent sky-blue crystal carpets composed of long thin terminated aurichalcite crystals to 4mm, complemented by varying amounts of quite small blue to green botryoidal rosasite and well-crystallized colorless hemimorphite to a few mm. A very few specimens also have white massive to micro xln hydrozincite, which fluoresces a nice blue-white under SW UV. Beautiful, rich specimens; excellent display material that is especially beautiful under the scope.

Please specify code number when ordering, eg. AURI-C

AURI-B, sold

 
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AURI-C, above left and right

The pix say it all, though they don't show the nicely xlized hemimorphite to 4mm and the greenish 1mm rosasite balls. A super-attractive miniature!

40x40x40mm, $22

 
AURI-D - sold

 
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AURI-E, above left and right

A nice big vug on the front and a second vug, small but exquisite, on the backside, with some micro hemimorphite.

50x40x30mm, $15

 
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F) above left and right

HYDROZINCITE, AURICHALCITE, HEMIMORPHITE

Abundant chalky white mssv hydrozincite and several nice pockets of aurichalcite, plus some hemimorphite. Great specimen for fluorescent collectors.

75x40x30mm, $24
G) right

HYDROZINCITE xls, ROSASITE, AURICHALCHITE, HEMIMORPHITE

A modest aurichalcite specimen, with a couple of small vugs (blue arrow) lined with quite tiny tabular hydrozincite xls, plus there's superb rosasite deep in another vug, and some hemimorphite.

60x40x35mm, $20

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