GUANACOITE, ARHBARITE, CONICHALCITE, ENARGITE

El Guanaco gold mine, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile

Type and only locality for this new Cu, Mg arsenate! 

RARE AND BEAUTIFUL!

Two habits available: long thin sky-blue acicular needles in sprays, clumps, and druses; and thick, darker blue, sometimes doubly terminated xls in druses.

Please specify code number when ordering, eg. F, G, H

A) above left and right, and right Excellent crystals to about 1mm in a pair of vugs, with a very fine botryoidal blue patch of arhbarite on the side! The pair of vugs is 15mm across. The arhbarite patch shown at right is 10mm across. The best combination piece in the lot, a fine specimen of two rare minerals. 40x30x30mm, $110
D) above left and right Stout crystals to 2mm long, a number of them are doubly terminated! With nice arhbarite. The xlized area is about 12x7mm. 40x40x25mm, $110

F) above left and right Nice flat-lying sprays of xls to ~2mm long in a 25x10mm area, plus some freestanding needles with good arhbarite and conichalcite in a deep vug on the side. 50x30x30mm, $90
G) above left and right Lovely sky-blue acicular xl clumps to 3mm with nice arhbarite, conichalcite, and small freestanding enargite xls 50x35x30mm, $80

H) Excellent dark blue xls to 1mm in a vug with nicely contrasting white calcite plus some fair arhbarite and conichalcite, enargite. 50x30x20mm, $75

I) Excellent dark blue xls to 1mm in a vug with a very cool, bizarre rounded white calcite xl, fair arhbarite, and conichalcite, enargite. 50x30x20mm, $75

L) A thumbnail specimen with a fairly well xlized patch of guanacoite about 7mm across, some very tiny xls of what might be adamite, and mssv enargite. 25x15x5mm, $30

M) Micromounts with good but not great guanacoite needles on matrix, $25

N) Micromounts suitable for reference specimens, mostly quite tiny, ~2 to 3mm, little or no matrix, $15 each

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