Crocoite with Vauquelinite (Type Locality for both) Fioravanti Coll.

Item Description

This showy and rich specimen is an excellent, important example of crocoite and vauquelinite from the Type Locality for both species. Note the robust, sharp, stereotypic crystal habit so different from that which we normally see in the far more common Aussie material. The crystals are to 1.0 cm, on matrix. Also, as a bonus, you have rich pistachio-green druse of the very rare phosphate-chromate vauquelinite all-around the edges of the sculptural vug, next to the milky quartz rind. Discovered in the early 1800s, these are some of the oldest well-studied lead mineral species and both are lead chromates. This piece happens to be rather attractive, as well as significant. Ex Giancarlo Fioravanti Collection and obtained in an exchange with the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow in 1977. This is probably Imperial Russia-era material. valued $400