Mineral: Chrysocolla coating Quartz
Locality: Tentadora Mine, Ullpac Mountain, Huancano District, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru
Dimensions: 3.3 × 2.8 × 3 cm

Description: Group of Quartz crystals covered by botryoidal growths of Chrysocolla with an intense greenish blue color. From a well-known Peruvian locality but from which this type of specimen had not previously been found.

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