Bournonite

Item Description

This specimen was collected in 2000. It hails from one of the most exciting Bolivian locality of the last 10 years. It hosts an sharp, tabular, metallic, silvery-grey color crystal. The piece has a unique appearance, and despite some rough edges, is fairly good quality for the locality and the material. Recently one of the best pieces from a recent find at Machacamarca was featured on the cover of the March/April 2009 Issue of the Mineralogical Record! This specimen is from the same mine. While perhaps this is not the most textbook crystal in the world, it has a fantastic termination, which I've tried to illustrated in the photo.