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Aragonite (one-time U.S. find!)
- Northern Lights Mine, Mineral Co., Nevada
- Small Cabinet, 8.7 x 8.3 x 4.4 cm
- Start Time: 11/11/2009 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 11/19/2009 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
This is certainly one of the top small cabinet examples of the aragonites from this one-time find we bought out a couple of years ago - not only beautiful, but an important new find of aragonite from anywhere, much less America. They have a unique look, with tiny crystals growing like teeth on an earlier generation of sharp, larger crystals. The crystals really stick up off the matrix in bold relief, in a series of interconnected bursts of crystals framed by the contrasting iron-rich matrix. Very, very few broken crystals for such intense coverage! If you do not have one of these, this one of the best we had, that we held back to offer later! Last year, we were able to buy the remaining pieces from this single pocket from the original miner, so we have all there is of it!