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This mineral specimen Famatinite with Tennantite on Pyrite from Quiruvilca
Mine, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, Peru is available
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Description of Mineral Specimen for sale No. 82444: |
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| Mineral Species: Famatinite with Tennantite on Pyrite. Location of origin: Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, Peru. Description: Superb pinkish gray-metallic famatinite crystals to 18 mm over lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystals to 30 mm. The surfaces of the famatinite crystals have overgrowth of small tennantite crystals to 0.5 mm. Complete and undamaged except the contact where it was formerly attached to surrounding matrix. Collected ca. 1994-5. This specimen of Famatinite is one of the ten best Famatinite specimens found in a one-time find at the Quiruvilca Mine, Peru. It was in my private collection for the last 10 years and is from the collection of Georg Gebhard, who was the co-author of "Die Weltbesten Kristalle von Famatinit und Luzonit," 1998 in Lapis, vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 35-37. The title of the article translates as, "The World's Finest Crystals of Famatinite and Luzonite." This article documents the find and describes the exceptional quality of the Famatinite specimens.
Overall size: 8x8x7 cm. FROM MY PRIVATE COLLECTION |
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