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MINERALS FROM SOUTH
AMERICA
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| MINERAL NUMBER | MINERAL | LOCATION | DESCRIPTION |
| 760 | ATACAMITE | La Farola Mine, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapo, Chile | Very sharp, highly lustrous dark green crystals. (N, E) $5.00 |
| 50760 | ATACAMITE | La Farola Mine, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapo, Chile | Very, very fine lustrous deep green crystals on 3.2 cm matrix. 1 @ $7.00 |
50759
 | ATACAMITE | Delirio Mine, Inca de Oro, Chile | Very attractive pieces with lustrous green Atacamite crystals on drusy Quartz on blue Chrysocolla in 3.8x3.23.0 cm box. $8.00 |
730
 
| "BELLITE" | Poderosa Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile | This mixture (Pb, CrO4,AsO4,SiO2) forms beautiful orangey-red tiny (30x) tapering crystals on matrix +/- blue "Percylite" Gypsum, Paratacamite, Cerussite, Seeligerite(?) (see note in "What's New!") (E) $7.00 |
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50730
| "BELLITE" | Poderosa Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile | This mixture (Pb, CrO4,AsO4,SiO2) forms beautiful orangey-red tiny (30x) tapering crystals on matrix +/- blue "Percylite" Gypsum, Paratacamite, Cerussite, Seeligerite(?) (see note in "What's New!") (E) These are larger pieces in 3.8 cm boxes. 3 only left at $10.00 |
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720
| BORIAN COOKEITE | Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Foliated masses of colourless to very pale cream micaceous plates of this rare Boron rich variety. (N, E) - $5.00 |
766  |
CHLOANTHITE | Agua Amarga, Vallenar, Chile | Groups and clusters of silvery, modified cubes. (N) $6.00 |
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732
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CORNETITE | Manto Russo Mine, Salado, Chile | Very fine light peacock blue to darker blue lustrous crystals on matrix +/- Malachite, Pseudomalachite and other Cu oxides. (N, E) $6.00 |
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745
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DIOPTASE | Amor Mine, Salado, Chile | Highly lustrous blue-green prismatic crystal sprays on limonite matrix. (N, E) $5.00 |
| 50745 | DIOPTASE | Amor Mine, Salado, Chile | A piece of vuggy limonitic matrix with coverage of blue-green prismatic crystals in a 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm box. $8.00 |
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701
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HYDROXYLAPATITE | Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Hexagonal, very pale blue-grey to white , prismatic crystals with silky lustre and dull white pyramidal terminations on Quartz crystals. (N, E) $5.00 |
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703
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HYDROXYLAPATITE | Divinos das Laranjerias, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Prismatic white third generation crystals with dull white caps on Quartz. (E) $5.00 |
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50770 |
LEMANSKIITE | Abundancia Mine, Guanaco, Chile | NEW MINERAL - NaCaCu5(AsO4)4Cl.5H2O Spheres and aggregates of dark sky-blue lamellar crystals with Lammerite on matrix. Best at 30x.In 3.8 cm boxes. 3 only @ $20.00 |
740
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LIBETHENITE | Salvador Mine, Potrerillos, Chile | SUPERB transparent, highly lustrous green crystals on pale matrix +/- spheres of Pseudomalachite. (N, E) $6.00 |
753 |
MICROLITE | Ipê Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Superb gemmy transparent orange modified octahedral crystals on white Albite and/or Quartz. (E) $8.00; $12.00; $15.00 |
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700
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MORAESITE | Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil | A rare BE phosphate as lustrous, silky acicular sprays and groups. Usually with Roscherite +/- Childrenite. (N, E) $7.00 |
| 751 | OLIVENITE | Chilena Mine, Guanaco, Chile | Groups of lustrous blocky prismatic crystals on matrix usually with minor light green Chenevixite. (N, E) $5.00 |
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718
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PARATACAMITE | Amor Mine, Salado, Chile | A botryoidal matrix coated with a pale blue to white mineral over which are light to dark-green lustrous Paratacamite crystals. (N, E) $6.00 |
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50718
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PARATACAMITE SOLD | Amor Mine, Salado, Chile | Lustrous pale to dark green crystals on and with pale blue Chrysocolla. Matrix to 3.8x3.0 cm. $10.00 |
752
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PENFIELDITE | Sierra Gorda, Antofagasto, Chile | Very rare, non-slag occurrence, as colourless to white, steeply pyramidal crystals, some with pedion termination, in vugs with blue "Percylite" - a Boléite/pseudo-Boléite combination. (E) $7.00; $10.00 |
| 724 | POWELLITE | San Samuel Mine, Carrera Pinto, Chile | NEW MATERIAL: Highly lustrous, very pale yellow to almost colourless crystals. usually with pseudoMalachite. UV fluorescence - creamy white. (N, E) $7.00 |
| 749 | PSEUDOMALACHITE | San Salvador Mine, Portrerillos, Chile | Very fine blue-green spheres on pale blue matrix. (E) $5.00 |
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50715
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RUTILE SOLD | Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Extremely fine pieces. Highly lustrous, red reticulated twin crystal groups in Perky # 2 boxes. (See photo) $18.00 |
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50721
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RUTILE | Gouveia, Cuiabá district, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Amazing pseudomorphs! Clusters of bipyramidal Anatase crystals either completely or almost completely replaced by golden acicular Rutile crystals. $20.00 |
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742
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SCORODITE | Perseverancia Mine, Guanaco, Chile | Very fine adamantine, pale blue crystal clusters usually on Quartz points +/- Calcite. (N, E) $5.00 |
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758
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SEELIGERITE | San Francisco Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile | A very rare Iodate as vitreous yellow to beige lamellar plates on matrix. (N, E) $7.00; $9.00; "3" rams horn" aggregates - $12.00 |
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50758
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SEELIGERITE | San Francisco Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile | Larger matrix pieces to 3.0 cm with good to excellent coverage in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes. $12.00 |
| 60758 | SEELIGERITE | San Francisco Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile | Very fine miniatures to 4.7 cm with good crystal groups. $15.00 |
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50707 |
SPESSSARTINE | Navegador Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil | Superb transparent red, gemmy stepped-growth crystal groups etched out of Calcite. (See photo) $12.00; $20.00 |
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50702
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UVITE on QUARTZ | Brumado, BA, Brazil | Lustrous, gemmy, transparent apple-green crystals up to 80mm on terminated single Quartz crystals up to 3.5 cm. in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes. $10.00 see photo |
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761
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WULFENITE | San Samuel Mine, Carrera, Pinto, Chile | Very fine brilliant orange to yellow tabular or modified tetrahedral crystals on Quartz matrix. (N, E) $5.00 |
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761
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WULFENITE | San Samuel Mine, Carrera, Pinto, Chile | Very fine brilliant orange to yellow tabular or modified tetrahedral crystals on Quartz matrix. (N, E) $5.00 |