Atacamite & Halloysite (Bedogne Coll.)

Item Description

The La Farola Copper Mine of Chile is famous for outstanding atacamite specimens. The rich and excellent sawed combination plate features a rich covering of jackstraw clusters of gem emerald-green atacamite lathes starkly accented with contrasting fields of white Halloysite botryoids, a clay of the Kaolinite-Serpentine Group. The pretty lustrous lathes reach 1.0 cm. Classic and rich combination material from the Francesco Bedogne Collection # 142 and acquired from well-known California dealer Al McGuinness (with his label). Dr. Bedogne, 1942-2012, was a well-known Italian mineralogist, prolific author, field collector and collector. Read his biography in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=118. The piece has several fine display views.