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Axinite-(Fe)
- Puiva Mountain, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Prepolar Ural, Siberia, Russia
- Thumbnail, 2.3 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm
- Start Time: 09/06/2012 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/13/2012 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A beautiful and extremely sharp and gemmy Axinite group from Puiva. Most specimens were found during the mid to late 1990's and then stopped altogether. The piece is nearly complete all the way around as you can see from the photos, and the crystals are and not "chewed up" around the edges (like the small teeth on a saw blade), like so many of them were from Puiva. The crystals are actually incredibly smooth and sharp on all sides. I don't need to tell you that this is a hard to find thumbnail specimen from an important locality.