Cassiterite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Elsmore, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia
Miniature, 3.7 x 2.1 x 2.1 cm
Start Time: 08/27/2020 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 09/03/2020 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Winning Bid: $54
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Item Description

A nice miniature specimen labeled as only coming from Elsmore (no specific mine listed) featuring several very sharp, highly lustrous, jet-black cyclic twinned crystals on Cassiterite measuring up to about 4 mm with Quartz sitting on Siderite and Muscovite matrix. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#). Kay was a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics. She nearly lived 100 years from April 1920 - March 2020. See the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record ( https://www.mineralogicalrecord.com/pdfs/Kay%20Robertson%20Collection.pdf ), and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$54 08/31/2020 6:53:15 am (CDT)
$49 08/31/2020 6:53:14 am (CDT)
$44 08/31/2020 6:52:52 am (CDT)
$39 08/31/2020 6:52:52 am (CDT)
$30 08/31/2020 6:52:22 am (CDT)
$25 08/31/2020 6:52:22 am (CDT)
$10 08/29/2020 2:48:31 pm (CDT)