Copper ("Spinel"-twins and crystals)A fantastic toenail sized display specimen of fine crystallized and "Spinel" twinned Copper from this wonderful discovery in Australia. This undamaged, showy, doubly terminated "floater" shows a marvelous combination of sharp, well defined, euhedral crystals of Native Copper along with elongated, striated "Spinel" twins. The piece is highlighted at the top by a wonderful dodecahedral crystal of Copper with both smooth well formed positive faces and

but it was difficult to illustrate in the photos

Willard Wulff

has no Amazonite

and a slight coating of a secondary clay mineral on the back

"sword"-shaped crystals of fiery orange-red colored Brookite with a few minor Quartz crystals sitting attractively on host rock matrix

A classic Augelite specimen from the famous Tasna mine in Bolivia

The piece comes with a typed label from an unknown collection

Specimen # BOL711B53

this specimen is in better condition than most from this mine

Specimen # BOL711B40

and a good overall specimen of this well-known material

mainly flies (Diptera)