Vivianite
specimen number:
2072118
location:
Tomokoni Mine, Canutillos, Potosi, Bolivia
description: This locality consist of Three small adits mined exclusively for vivianite specimens, located a few hundred meters downhill from the Canutillos mine, to whose Cooperativa members it now belongs. Host rock is non-mineralized red argillaceous sandstone.
Lustrous deep bluish green prismatic crystals of vivianite on a red sandstone matrix. In good condition.
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