Vivianite Amber Insect This piece has some of

This piece has some of the largest individual crystals of Wavellite that I have seen from Bolivia

000 feet tall and gets its name from an Aimara word meaning "golden eagle"

I have photographed the crystals under the microscope to show that they are truly terminated crystals and not just a mass

peach-yellow color crystals of this hard-to-find species on matrix

colorless prismatic hexagonal Quartz crystal with minor green Clinochlore "Chlorite" inclusions at the base

Vivianite Amber Insect This piece has some ofHere is a great old locality specimen of Vivianite from the Siglo XX mine in Bolivia. Subscribers to the Mineralogical Record know that an entire issue was dedicated to this unique and historic locality. This small cabinet size piece features a few beautiful, relatively sharp, gemmy, blue green color, prismatic crystals of Vivianite (some are actually doubly terminated!) associated with botryoidal Wavellite which is coated replaced by Limonite. This