Brookite (old) ex Whitmore Coll.

Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas
Small Cabinet, 7.5 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm
Start Time: 02/20/2010 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/25/2010 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Splendent, dark gray, brookite crystals to 8 mm are nicely clustered on the layered matrix on this fine old-timer from the famous Magnet Cove deposit of Arkansas. Ex Robert Whitmore Collection ; and as a bonus.... with an approx. 100-year-old A.E. Foote label glued to the bottom. This would be one of the earlier Arkansas brookites, one assumes, dating to around 1900.

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