2298 Aubertite, Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Pale blue crystalline crust of aubertite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crystalline crust of aubertite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow-green crust of one of the Obradovicite Group species with minor white gypsum. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Mid green tufts of prismatic crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic libethenite crystals with the smaller ones being a transparent light “epidote” green, and the larger ones being a very dark blackish-green. Greenish blue brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on...
Green platy crystals of metatorbernite, yellow phurcalite (fluorescent), colourless crystals (some as sceptres), and a colourless platy crystal (left side of photo and in closeup). The latter is a similar habit to torbernite, but there...
Simply labelled Azul Mine. Yellow puffballs and acicular groups.
Three 5mm specimens, mounted side by side, with tiny yellow-green molybdofornacite crystals, orange-yellow wulfenite crystals and chrysocolla. The molybdofornacite from Dulcinea has been identified with semiquantitative and quantitative analysis by Dr. Jochen Schlater (curator of...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Melbourne Museum in 1983. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Tiny pale blue crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 61 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A beautiful cluster of blue sampleite crystals with a dark green atacamite crystal behind. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Terry Scenics. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $3.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 14 images.
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Robert Kurcbart 4/2005
Two pieces. Bright gold on deep blue chrysocolla.
Colourless crystals.
Typical blue crystals with cerussite(?) on quartz.
Red acicular crystals.
Green sprays of dioptase with white apatite. This mine not mentioned in this district in Mindat (Jan 2015).
Orange prismatic bellite, blue diaboleite, yellow schwartzembergite
Type locality. Sky blue crystals
Described as pertlikite-(Zn) as yellow cubes. Krausite as colourless or white prismatic crystals. Coquimbite as lilac crystals and matrix.
Listed as simply from Chile, but likely the famous Chuquicamata Mine. Rich with yellowish green chrystline material. Also has a few specks of dark green crystals.
Green crystals of rodalquilarite, partly encrusted with and embedded in crystalline yellow poughite