Crocoite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Red Lead Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan district, Tasmania, Australia
Thumbnail, 1.3 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm
Start Time: 04/02/2020 8:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/09/2020 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Winning Bid: $15
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Item Description

Were it not for the Crocoite specimens from Tasmania, a lot of collectors wouldn't be terribly familiar with Crocoite. Without question, the most impressive crystals of Crocoite have been found in Tasmania. Here we have a nice little thumbnail sized piece featuring a few sharp, lustrous, prismatic crystals of Crocoite with the classic electric orange-red color measuring up to 7 mm on oxidized matrix. Minor roughness, but it's a nice example of this older material from the Red Lead Mine dating back to the 1960s-1970s. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#12329). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$15 04/09/2020 4:07:33 pm (CDT)
$10 04/04/2020 9:01:03 pm (CDT)
$10 04/04/2020 9:00:06 pm (CDT)
$10 04/04/2020 9:01:41 pm (CDT)