Copper ''sheet'' with Aragonite (rare combo for the locality)

Coro Coro, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Cabinet, 10.3 x 7.0 x 1.1 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 7:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 01/30/2025 6:45:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Coro Coro is a world-famous locality, which has produced iconic "floater" specimens of Copper pseudomorphing after Aragonite, but THIS piece is a rarely seen example featuring a flattened "leaf" or "sheet" of Native Copper, that hosts UN-PSEUDOMORPHED, white crystal groups of Aragonite measuring up to 1.1 cm across. It's incredibly rare to find Aragonite like this ON Copper from Coro Coro, especially in its original un-pseudomorphed form. It's an important specimen for the locality, as matrix specimens are rare enough, but to find a specimen with un-pseudomorphed Aragonite on matrix is virtually unseen. Don't miss out on this one, it's from an older find circa 2005, and it's my understanding that this locality is owned and operated by a Korean mining company that takes all of the copper and melts it down, so specimens may never be recovered from Coro Coro again.

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$10 01/24/2025 1:50:49 pm (CST)