Bi-colored Smithsonite (Carmichael Coll.)

El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 8.4 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
Start Time: 06/05/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/12/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Juicy, translucent, vivid pink smithsonite botryoids cover a thin rind of banded gray smithsonite on a bit of limestone matrix on this showy bi-colored piece. Older - 1960s or 1970s vintage material from the El Refugio Mine at Choix.. Excellent and classic material from this mined out locale, that was documented in a 2011 Mineralogical Record Special Issue. This showy piece has multiple display possibilities. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection.

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