GOLD, ATACAMITE, BOLEITE
La Compania Mine, Sierra Gorda district, Antofagasta Province, Chile
Small paper-thin plates of gold with veins and scales of dark green atacamite and lesser quantities of blue boleite, the latter mostly scaley, rarely in tiny cubes where thin veinlets offered room to grow. The matrix is a dark brown soft, highly altered rock. A new and unusual find!
A wide range is available, if you'd like something smaller or less expensive, let me know.
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| A) - all four photos above -A roughly fist-sized
specimen with 3 groups of gold flecks, ~1-3mm Very rich and quite attractive naked-eye-visible native gold. 80x80x60mm, $90
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| B) above left and right - a group of 5 gold flecks, all in the 2mm range, 50x35x35mm, $60 | |