Fluorite octahedrons ex Whitmore Coll.

Judith Lynn Claim, Pine Canyon deposit, Grant Co., New Mexico
Small Cabinet, 7.8 x 6.8 x 3.7 cm
Start Time: 01/21/2010 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 01/28/2010 6:53:20 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Classic, highly desirable, color-zoned, purple, fluorite octahedrons to 1.1 cm richly litter the undulating layered matrix of spongey quartz and green fluorite on this showy and excellent specimen from the famous Pine Canyon deposit of New Mexico. The octos are lustrous and very lightly etched/frosted. No damage. Ex Robert Whitmore Collection # 316 and purchased in 1970 as being from "Catron County". Years ago these were sold as from Catron County to deceive potential claim jumpers. Probably collected by famous field collector, Dick Jones, who worked the Judith Lynn Claim.

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