Vauxite (good color)

Item Description

Here we have a remarkable, well crystallized, wonderful blue color, ridiculously rare specimen consisting of radiating crystal aggregates of Vauxite on matrix. I have photographed the crystals under the microscope to show that they are truly terminated crystals and not just a blue mass. It is very difficult to obtain any specimens of this incredibly beautiful phosphate, and pieces with this saturation of color are hard to find. Certainly this is top color for the species with regard to intensity. This piece is from 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.