Vauxite with Childrenite

Item Description

From the find of 2009, this is another great discovery for this locality. This particular piece is a remarkable, very well crystallized, ridiculously rare, specimen consisting of small, bladed, beautiful blue color, radiating aggregates of Vauxite with some very tiny spots of brownish-tan Childrenite on the specimen. I have photographed the Vauxite and Childrenite crystals under high magnification to show that they are truly terminated crystals and not just a mass. This piece is from the type locality for Vauxite which was originally discovered along the Contacto and San Jose veins in this mine and first described by Sam Gordon and Mark Bandy.