Juangodoyite

  
Ultramarine blue platy crusts and veins in matrix
Origin: Santa Rosa Mine near Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile (type locality)
Sample size: thumbnail (left), 1.5 x 2 cm (right)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Purplish blue, chalky crusts of juangodoyite replacing chalconatronite with sky blue, darker chalconatronite.
  
Opaque purple-blue, chalky coating of juangodoyite on matrix. Associated with lighter blue coating of chalconatronite (?).
Origin: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique, Tarapaca region, Chile (type locality)
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm (top), 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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