I’ve posted a small number of beautiful atacamite specimens in this new Peru Atacamite Update (click here). These are sharp, lustrous, terminated atacamite crystals in vugs, from the Lily Mine, near Pisco, Ica. Many of the smaller crystals are transparent and intense green. One piece in the Update features a water-clear selenite crystal perched on perfect atacamite crystals. Other minerals in the update include quartz-covered chrysocolla, malachite on quartz and a green quartz (with dioptase inclusions).

Atacamite, Chrysocolla, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru
Field of view 3.0 cm

Atacamite, Chrysocolla, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru
Field of view 1.5 cm

Atacamite, Chrysocolla, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru – 7.0 cm

Atacamite, Chrysocolla, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru – 7.3 cm

Gypsum (var. selenite) on Atacamite, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru
Field of view 2.0 cm

Atacamite on Chrysocolla, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru
Field of view 3.0 cm

Calcite on quartz-covered chrysocolla with atacamite, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru – 6.4 cm

Malachite, quartz, Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica Dept., Peru – 4.0 cm

Quartz with dioptase, Carbonera Mine, Nazca, Ica, Peru – 7.5 cm