Apatite with Lazulite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

Yukon phosphates are world famous for their fine quality, great associations and sheer visual beauty. Although Apatite is not a rare phosphate, it's not often seen from the Yukon, and this piece is a great example of the material featuring a few sharp, lustrous, translucent, nearly colorless, striated crystals measuring up to 6 mm which are associated with highly lustrous deep inky blue crystals of Lazulite with associated sharp, gemmy, rhombs of golden-brown Siderite on matrix. A fine association piece of this classic material. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#12982). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).