Demantoid) Garnets w/ Repidolite xls (rare combo) Trimingham Coll.

San Benito Peak, New Idria Dist., San Benito Co., California
Small Cabinet, 7.4 x 4.0 x 2.4 cm
Start Time: 01/25/2014 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 01/30/2014 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Scintillating, gemmy and lustrous, beautiful mint-green, modified demantoid garnet dodecahedrons to 5 mm are richly and very aesthetically clustered atop the wedge of serpentine matrix and are accented with, rare for the locale, lustrous pseudo-hexagonal, green-black plates of the uncommon clinochlore species, ripidolite. An outstanding and rare combination specimen from this locale from the Bob Trimingham Collection and acquired from Seibel Minerals in 1986, according to the label. A MUST for the locality or species collector.

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