VivianiteThis specimen was collected in 2000, when Huanuni had a short, but prosperous boom of specimens. I personally obtained this piece at the mine on one of my first trips to Bolivia. I kept it as a memento of those early years visiting Bolivia, but its time for it to find a new home. The piece features a very sharp, GEM quality, highly lustrous, rich emerald green, sword shaped crystal with a beautiful termination with Siderite on Pyrite matrix. A great

Specimen # BOL711B169

This is a remarkable

vitreous rhombohedra of cream-colored Dolomite – some of which are oriented into spherical aggregates – which are sitting atop black Sphalerite

as far as I can tell

somewhat lustrous to satiny

A worthwhile and aesthetic smaller specimen of this classic material

Specimen # BOL711B218

cream-colored Stilbite

AND the fact that the crystals are on matrix

Great quality all around and so showy

there are some small Cassiterite crystals that are actually “floating” inside the Quartz crystals

they are newly mined specimens from this well-known locality