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Hydroxylherderite (Wendell Wilson Coll.)
- Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Thumbnail, 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm
- Start Time: 04/22/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/01/2014 6:33:42 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A superb, competition-quality, hydroxylherdite thumbnail from a most uncommon locale for the species, the famous Barra de Salinas District. A sharp, lustrous, translucent, light lavender crystal is dramatically perched upright on albite matrix with starkly contrasting yellow lepidolite crystals. An exceptional and rare, 360-degree combination thumbnail. Ex Wendell Wilson Collection, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Mineralogical Record.