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TX56AL5: A novelty at the Sainte Marie 2020 Virtual show: vivid greenish blue Chrysocolla coating almost completely Quartz crystals. The coat has two generations of Chrysocolla, the first forming a smooth and uniform cover and the other, later, in botryoidal growths. From a well known Peruvian locality but one from which this type of specimen had not been found before.
Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department Peru (03/2020)
Specimen size: 15 × 7.8 × 7.7 cm = 5.91” × 3.07” × 3.03”
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