Antlerite (old classic) ex Velte Coll.

Item Description

An extremely rich plate of a solid, 6 mm, thick vein of lustrous, dark green, acicular antlerite crystals from the world's largest open pit copper mine, Chuquicamata, in Chile. The vein is sandwiched in rhyolite. The locality is now long gone and good, rich, colorful pieces like this are almost impossible to come by of the rare copper species once found there. This is an exceedingly rich, rare, beautiful plate of the species. Not only is it beautiful, but it is a very significant specimen of a very rare copper species. Probably circa 1900-1930. Ex Charles Velte Collection.