Albite ps. After Scapolite (rare) ex Ed Swoboda Coll.

Item Description

This less well-known Bancroft area locale is famous for one species - albite pseudomorphs after sharp scapolite crystals. This is an aesthetically intergrown cluster of euhedral sharply terminated pinkish pseudos with a light crust. Specimens of this quality are rare and are seldom on the market. Ex Ed Swoboda Pseudomorph Collection. Ed, who lived from 1917-2013, was one of the United States most successful field collectors. He traveled worldwide and found the world's finest brazilianites in 1945. Ed purchased the Stewart, Tourmaline Queen and Pala Chief pegmatite mines and was part of the renowned "bluecap" tourmaline discovery in 1972 at the Queen. Later projects included boleite and cumengite from the Amelia Mine in Mexico, famous purple adamites from the Ojuela Mine in 1982 and wulfenite and mimetite from the San Francisco Mine in 1989. He assembled several world-class mineral collections (with the famous Alma Queen rhodochrosite), including a superb pseudomorph collection, started in about 1984 and sold in the late 1990s and dispersed in the early 2000s. This is an outstanding example from the collection. Read Ed's biography in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=630.