AQUA - BLUE SMITHSONITE. ...

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AQUA - BLUE SMITHSONITE
Buena Terra Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
The Buena Tierra Mine at Santa Eulalia occasionally produces cuprian Smithsonite specimens of an attractive, light blue-green hue. In this lovely example a swarm of rounded, aqua-blue, rhombohedral forms are scattered over an irregular rust red-orange gossan matrix. The only broken areas are at the edges where the Smithsonite was attached to the cavity walls. It measures 3 ½ x 1 ¾ x 1 5/8 inches deep and is in very fine condition.

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