Hydroxylherderite with Microlite on Muscovite (Meieran Coll.)

Item Description

Herderite is an extremely rare species from Pakistan and Afghanistan pegmatites, occurring rarely and usually only as loose crystals. This matrix specimen is a rarity, featuring a perfect, textbook crystal of herderite perched in a soft nest of glimmering blades of muscovite mica. The crystal is so elegantly perched up there, on a piece that sits flat for easy display! Small, brilliant orange-amber crystals of microlite to 3 mm decorate crevasses below and provide some accents. The herderite itself is 3.3 cm tip to tip on longest dimension, or 1.7 to 2 cm on edges. This is, as are many of Gene's pieces accumulated over decades of collecting gem pegmatite minerals, an interesting combination piece that is simply not often seen. From the Gene Meieran collection.