Vauxite (good color) (2008 find)

Item Description

Here we have a remarkable, very well crystallized, beautiful blue color, ridiculously rare specimen consisting of radiating crystal aggregates of Vauxite on clay matrix. I have photographed the crystals under high magnification to show that they are truly terminated crystals and not just a blue mass. I must point out that these crystals of Vauxite show a vibrant blue color, and is not at all dull, like most pieces from the locality. It is very difficult to obtain any specimens of this incredibly beautiful phosphate. This piece is from the 2008 find at the type locality for this material which was originally discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins in this mine and first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy.