Aragonite (RARE locality specimen)

Beaver Creek, Campe Verde area, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. George Loud; Richard Hronik; Buck Keller
Small Cabinet, 7.8 x 4.6 x 3.9 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 8:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/02/2025 6:00:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $70

Item Description

This might be the ONLY Aragonite of this style/habit I've seen from the Campe Verde area. For reference, the label gives the locality at Beaver Creek, but it's not listed on the mindat.org database. A similar specimen with the same locality can be seen here ( https://www.mindat.org/photo-1033854.html ). The piece is highlighted by a cyclic-twinned group of translucent, pale golden colored Aragonite measuring 1.8 cm, surrounded by smaller Aragonite crystals, on matrix. There is a bit of roughness in spots, but overall it's in good condition, and it's a very presentable specimen for what it is. A cool esoteric locality specimen to fill a spot in an Arizona collection.
Originally from Richard Hronik's collection, and in Buck Keller's collection prior to that.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 14.1.3.1 AZ.2; 9504. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$70 02/02/2025 2:55:10 pm (CST)
$60 02/02/2025 10:15:59 am (CST)
$55 02/02/2025 10:15:59 am (CST)
$50 02/02/2025 10:12:07 am (CST)
$45 02/02/2025 10:12:07 am (CST)
$40 02/02/2025 10:11:35 am (CST)
$35 02/02/2025 10:11:35 am (CST)
$30 01/28/2025 3:39:10 pm (CST)
$25 01/28/2025 3:39:10 pm (CST)
$10 01/24/2025 10:54:30 am (CST)