Juangodoyite
Santa Rosa Mine, Huantajaya mining district, Alto Hospicio, Iquique Province, Tarapacá, Chile
3.8 x 3.4 x 1.4 cm. Juangodoyite is a very rare Na-Ca carbonate, unique to the Santa Rosa mine, which is an adit within the old Santa Rosa silver mining district, already defunct since end of the 19th century (MINDAT). It is named after Juan Godoy, discoverer of the famed Chanarcillo silver deposit. Crusts of vivid ultramarine blue richly cover ...
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