Copper

CopperA very attractive locality specimen from Corocoro which was collected in October of 2010. Most people are familiar with the Copper pseudomorphs after Aragonite from this locality, but to find non pseudomorphic native Copper is rather rare. This beautiful, aesthetic, branching, arborescent group of crudely crystallized Copper is a great display specimen from this historic locality. For the size and aesthetic, this piece is one of the better samples of

Good shape overall

) insect inclusions featuring mainly flies (Diptera) along with wasps (Hymenoptera)

It’s not common to find two different twinning habits of Cassiterite on the same specimen from Viloco

smooth and incredibly well-formed

it becomes cloudy and crazed leaving very little room to view what's inside

Here we have a well-formed

A nice representative thumbnail specimen of Amazonite

If you’re a Bolivian mineral collector

Some of the Augelites are very good-sized for the locality and

antimony sulfosalt and was named for the Hungarian mineral collector Andor von Semsey (1833-1923)

Good green Garnet specimens are rarely seen in pieces this size

Specimen # BOL711B263