Enargite (Soregaroli Coll.)

Item Description

The famous mines of Peru have produced some of the world's finest enargite specimen and this is an outstanding and aesthetic miniature. A dramatic cluster of large, terminated, tapered, lustrous metallic-gray enargite blades, to 3.1 cm, jauntily caps this solid enargite specimen. The broken prisms are noted on one side, but are certainly only a modet detraction to this adorable piece. This exceptional specimen is from an unknown Peru locality. The Art Soregaroli label says the San Cristobal Mine in Junin Department, but MINDAT does not list the species for this silver mine (but since Art was editor of the Peru book and had many weird locality things from Peru, I am loathe to change his label). It is similar to famous Quiruvilca Mine material.