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Cylindrite (very rare)
- Santa Cruz Mine, Poopó Town, Poopó Prov., Oruro, Bolivia (Type Locality)
- Small Cabinet, 5.3 x 4.9 x 3.8 cm
- Start Time: 04/27/2023 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/04/2023 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $101
Item Description
Cylindrite is one of the most morphologically interesting minerals, because as its name implies, the crystals form in "cylinder" or "tube" shapes. It's one of most unique species in all the mineral kingdom, and certainly in a class of its own. This small cabinet is a wonderful, rare rich specimen of this rare lead, iron, tin, antimony sulfosalt, filled with lustrous, metallic, dark silvery colored crystals measuring up 1.1 cm on matrix. This piece is from the Santa Cruz Mine in the town of Poopo, which is the type locality for the Cylindrite. A great opportunity for any collector to own a species rarely seen for sale in today's market. I have not seen any new specimens of Cylindrite on the market in several years (this particular piece was mined in the late 1990s), and the top pieces from Poopo are certainly the best in the world.
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Bidding History
| Bid Amount | Bid Time |
|---|---|
| $101 | 04/30/2023 3:02:19 pm (CDT) |
| $93 | 04/30/2023 3:02:19 pm (CDT) |
| $76 | 04/29/2023 6:17:04 pm (CDT) |
| $66 | 04/29/2023 6:17:03 pm (CDT) |
| $40 | 04/29/2023 2:23:23 pm (CDT) |
| $35 | 04/29/2023 2:23:23 pm (CDT) |
| $30 | 04/29/2023 2:23:16 pm (CDT) |
| $25 | 04/29/2023 2:23:16 pm (CDT) |
| $20 | 04/29/2023 2:23:10 pm (CDT) |
| $15 | 04/29/2023 2:23:10 pm (CDT) |
| $10 | 04/28/2023 9:29:10 pm (CDT) |