Guanaco Mine

Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile

A series of large open pit and underground workings which produce some interesting mineral specimens.

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Mindat lists 70 minerals from the site, of which it is the type locality for six – ceruleite, erazoite, guanacoite, lemanskiite, pharmacoalumite, schlossmacherite.

The site does produce a large amount of rare and uncommon minerals, some of which will be of great interest to micro mineral and systematic mineral collectors.

The Lemanskiite from the site especially is excellent quality and a very bright blue.

 

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If you are interested in other classic Chilean locales we may have stock from the following locales.

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For the rest of our Chilean stock, see below.

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Minerals from Chile