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Analcime with Natrolite (ex Charlie Key Collection)
- Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry) Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
- Miniature, 4.8 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
- Start Time: 09/13/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/20/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Mount Saint-Hilaire is one of the world's most significant localities, and produces many "best in the world" specimens of a lot of minerals. This piece features sharp, lustrous, white trapezohedral Analcime crystals measuring up to 2.3 cm across with chalky white, tetragonal prisms of Natrolite. Good quality and showy from a few directions. I'm told that collecting at the quarry is now restricted by new ownership, so specimens will not be as easy to obtain as they have been for years. Valued at $500. Ex Charlie Key personal collection. Charlie is arguably the most sucessful dealer of the second half of the 20th century, along with being the namesake for TWO mineral species (Keyite and Ludlockite).
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