CopperThis specimen of Native Copper resembles what we saw from the 2017 discovery at the Rocklands Mine in Australia. It has a defined arborescent form with tendril like branching "arms" and beautiful three dimensional appeal. My favorite aspect of the piece is the fact that it sits beautifully on its own without the aid of a base or clay. If you look closely, there are some actual crystal faces on the piece, so it's both a crystallized specimen and what I

To find all three "Vauxites" together on one piece is amazing

antimony sulfosalt which are associated with rare lustrous acicular Zinkenite crystals on matrix

Ferberite was sometimes previously referred to as "Wolframite"

Good luster on the display side

the Siglo XX mine is the only locality for Vauxite in the world

What makes this piece stand out from others I've seen from this area is the fact that it doesn't feature a lone "skull" but rather a semi-"flower"-shaped group featuring a few "skulls" with isolated "petals" of Copper flaring out from the sides

that it completely redefined Andorite as a crystallized species

black to very dark golden colored cyclic twinned crystal group which is associated with small acicular crystals of rarely seen greenish-brown Tourmaline

A nice representative thumbnail specimen of Amazonite

which is noteworthy for the locality

and was part of my father’s collection for over 20 years and then came to me

with slight yellow zones