Goethite balls on Quartz casts on Calcite (weird) Dr. B. Phillips Coll.

Item Description

A very strange, yet fascinating looking large combination from the famous mines at Santa Eulalia. The undulating sculptural matrix plate is covered with lustrous, translucent, two-toned, gray and off-white calcite rhombs, to 1.0 cm. Pods and isolated weird looking quartz casts are richly scattered about. All of the casts have hollow, circular centers like cups. Some are empty and some have small embedded goethite balls! Ex Dr. Barratt Phillips Collection. A striking, perhaps unique in habit large combination from here.