Wavellite with Quartz type locality soft blue color cuboctahedral crystal

soft blue color cuboctahedral crystal of this hard-to-find species on matrix

and obtaining specimens is next to impossible because miners rarely bring out anything for sale

This specimen has some very good-sized crystals for the locality and was found in early 2010

A worthwhile smaller specimen of this classic material

Wavellite with Quartz type locality soft blue color cuboctahedral crystalAlthough Wavellite is a fairly well known phosphate species, it is truly only found in a handful of localities in well crystallized display specimens. The majority of the Wavellites from world localities feature either micro crystals, or incomplete (broken) spheres on matrix. The Bolivian Wavellites, particularly those from the famous Siglo XX mine, are among the best in the world due to the fact that they occur with eye visible spheres that are often