Calcite (fluorescent) & Mottramite (Tom Wolfe Coll.)

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Small Cabinet, 5.4 x 4.8 x 2.4 cm
Start Time: 04/23/2015 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/30/2015 6:30:12 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Water-clear, colorless, calcite rhombs, to 1.2 cm on edge, are very aesthetically scattered on the matrix plate of tiny, sparkly, olive-green, mottramite crystals/botryoids. Really adding pizzazz, all of the rhombs are included with mottramite. Very nearly pristine, the lower-right rhomb has just a touch of edge wear. Tsumeb, like Dal'negorsk, is renowned for calcite diversity and quality and this is a very fine and uncommon in this quality combination example. BRIGHT orange SW fluorescence! Ex Tom Wolfe Calcite Collection.

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