Halite (uncommon locale) (ex Richard Rossi Collection)

Laguna Salazar, Estero la Pinta, Sonora, Mexico
Cabinet, 11.6 x 8.3 x 4.1 cm
Start Time: 03/03/2022 9:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/10/2022 6:50:00 pm (CST)
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Winning Bid: $261
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Item Description

A beautiful and aesthetic specimen from this obscure locality featuring many sharp, well-formed, stark white colored, cubic crystals of Halite measuring up to 2.1 cm on edge sitting on a layer of a beige colored Halite with massive white Halite underneath. The cubes are smooth and even slightly lustrous, with a tiny bit of "hoppered" / skeletal growth in a few spots. No major damage and very showy. I could find a listing for this locality on mindat.org, but I did find a similar specimen listed at the following link ( http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/mineralmuseum/picshow.php?id=48648 ). From the collection of Richard Rossi, an East Coast collector and longtime Fellow and supporter of the Mineralogical Record and the community.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$261 03/10/2022 6:43:59 pm (CST)
$251 * 03/10/2022 6:43:51 pm (CST)
$251 * 03/10/2022 6:43:51 pm (CST)
$231 03/10/2022 6:43:15 pm (CST)
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$20 03/08/2022 10:17:08 pm (CST)
$15 03/08/2022 2:46:55 pm (CST)
$10 03/05/2022 10:48:40 pm (CST)
* Proxy Bid Battle: In the event of two customers inputting matching proxy bids, the leading bid goes to the earliest of the two proxy bids. Tie winners are shown in bold.