Cobalt-bearing Calcite

Item Description

A gorgeous, large plate of NEON HOT PINK Cobalt-bearing Calcite with exceptional color saturation, makes for a cabinet display piece full of impact, as well as a major specimen for this noted locality. This elongate plate has a 3-dimensional and hummocky surface covered in hundreds of tightly grouped, bright magenta-pink, translucent crystals of Cobalt-bearing Calcite. They are truly scintillating, like jewels, much higher luster than usual for this material. It probably came out in the early 2000s. It is 99 percent pristine, with just a few tiny dings or peripheral wear. It shows some small internal fractures which look like white specks in the video, and reflect light, but are not damage. The rounded mounds are almost transparent as you can see right into the beautiful pink Calcite. The color of this piece is just mesmerizing and just glows with that sumptuous magenta-pink color! This is a great larger specimen of the material that just pops in any display and in fact was an anchor piece in one of the most favored display cases in the collection, Erika Pohl's favorite suite of Moroccan treasures. Specimens of this size AND quality, this luster and translucency, are extremely rare today and were always rare then. This is a shockingly beautiful and large piece in a showcase, and should be valued $15-25,000.