Azurite (excellent ''rose'' specimen) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)

Item Description

The Blue Grotto Mine (Prospect) in Utah is famous for producing some of the most attractive Azurite "roses" for any locality outside of Arizona. These are some of the most well-known minerals from any locality in Utah for their excellent size, color, luster and quality. This piece is a particularly attractive and fine quality "rose" featuring notably sharp, lustrous, well-formed bladed crystals of Azurite forming a nearly complete "floater" specimen. The back of the piece has a couple small points of attachment, so you can't call it a "floater", but it's still excellent quality. Perhaps the most impressive feature is the fact that the crystals are deep blue color, and not a light faded blue that you can sometimes see in other Azurite "roses". No real damage of note on the display side, and a fantastic large miniature / small cabinet of these classic and now very hard to find Azurites. For reference, this locality was mined out in the 1980s, so no more will be found like this. Priced in our inventory at $1,400. From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds who passed in August of 2020. Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.