Among sandbanks, rocks, and pure desert, 30 kilometers southeast of Copiapo, in the middle of the plain, these large replacements of pyrite with goethite appear; only a few crystals reach this size.
Great combination of minerals characteristic of “Sierra Gorda”. It can be seen in larger quantities, at first glance, boleite and native gold sheets and to a lesser extent atacamite.
Aesthetic Guanacoite samples were found just a couple of years ago on a boulder of half a meter in diameter. Generally Guanacoite samples are unattractive and rare, so these samples represent the best of its mineral
This very rare copper mineral is here present as beautiful sparkling crystals to about the millimeter accompanied by tabular pearly white to pale greenish crystals of Gordaite
This very rare copper mineral is here present as beautiful sparkling crystals to about the millimeter accompanied by tabular pearly white to pale greenish crystals of Gordaite
Amygdule in basalt lined by greenish celadonite that was partially covered by fine grayish-brown sand, then filled by reddish brown heulandite crystals. This sample was collected in the 1990s.