Vauxite (good crystallization)

Item Description

Here we have a remarkable, very well crystallized, rich blue color, ridiculously rare specimen consisting of radiating crystal aggregates of Vauxite on thin white "casts" of Wavellite. It is very difficult to obtain any specimens of this incredibly beautiful phosphate. This piece is from the type locality for this material which was discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins in this mine and was first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy. It is so unbelievably rare to find matrix specimens of Vauxite from Bolivia. It is very difficult to obtain Vauxite specimens with such rich color that are not coated by micro Quartz or have a dull grey overtone. A lovely miniature of this material, and next to impossible to obtain on the market today with crystals this size.