One of the most exciting and yet incredibly limited discoveries for Bolivian minerals
“sword”-shaped crystal with a beautiful termination with golden Siderite and aesthetically flaring off Pyrite matrix
along with micro tabular white-green crystals of Paravauxite and tan blades of Sigloite (which forms as an alteration of Paravauxite) plus whitish spheres of Wavellite and a few scattered gem quality Quartz crystals on firm Quartz-Diorite porphyry matrix
The piece has good color and luster
you almost never see specimens
Vauxite, Paravauxite, Metavauxite, Sigloite, Quartz, Wavellite and Römerite Zinkenite One of the most excitingFrom the find of 2006, this is undoubtedly one of the most significant and momentous discoveries ever made at this locality. Not since the days of World War II has there been such a remarkable find of this material. These are, simply put, some of the largest overall Vauxite specimens in the world, but the greatest aspect of these pieces is two fold. First, the Vauxite itself is associated with micro fibrous "strands" of the super rare phosphate