Halite (fine quality for the locality)

Item Description

The more contemporary Halite specimens from the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California are often somewhat opaque, but this piece features notably GEMMY crystals that are a better quality than most I've seen from the locality. This piece hosts several sharp, well-formed, semi-lustrous, colorless cubes of Halite measuring up to 2.4 cm on a bit of matrix, forming a very attractive and aesthetic display piece. No damage on the front/display side, and very showy as you can see from the video. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016) with a label that states it was collected between 1979-1982 and was collected prior to flooding at the locality. David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.