Dioptase (rare locality specimen)

Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. George Loud
Thumbnail, 1.7 x 1.2 x 0.7 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 8:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/02/2025 6:00:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $193

Item Description

A notably hard to find Dioptase specimen from Bisbee, one of the very few I've ever encountered. I will say that the piece does bear a resemblance to the more well-known Dioptases from Tiger, but I'm going off of the label information on this one, and I have seen at least one other piece from Bisbee with this specific habit/style. This piece is a showy thumbnail featuring a few attractive, radiating "balls" of intense emerald green Dioptase measuring up to 6 mm across, sitting on a thin layer of soft greenish colored matrix. No major damage and very attractive in person. If you collect thumbnails, copper minerals, Arizona minerals or worldwide Dioptase, this is a gorgeous little thumbnail from this historic mining area.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 383 AZ.2; 6007. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$193 02/02/2025 4:58:44 pm (CST)
$183 02/02/2025 4:58:44 pm (CST)
$163 02/02/2025 4:33:14 pm (CST)
$153 02/02/2025 3:11:37 pm (CST)
$150 02/02/2025 3:11:37 pm (CST)
$137 02/02/2025 3:07:51 pm (CST)
$127 02/02/2025 2:02:04 pm (CST)
$120 02/02/2025 2:02:04 pm (CST)
$113 02/02/2025 1:35:28 pm (CST)
$103 02/02/2025 5:33:31 am (CST)
$100 02/02/2025 5:33:31 am (CST)
$72 02/01/2025 6:47:06 pm (CST)
$62 01/30/2025 5:01:35 pm (CST)
$52 01/29/2025 12:47:47 pm (CST)
$49 01/29/2025 12:47:47 pm (CST)
$36 01/29/2025 12:47:00 pm (CST)
$31 01/29/2025 12:47:00 pm (CST)
$20 01/24/2025 3:44:48 pm (CST)
$15 01/24/2025 2:50:21 pm (CST)
$10 01/23/2025 11:00:59 pm (CST)