Hydrozincite (rare CA - fluorescent) Trimingham Coll.

Crestmore quarries, Riverside Co., California
Small Cabinet, 5.4 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm
Start Time: 03/05/2015 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/12/2015 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Hydrozincite is RARE from these famous California quarries. A bone-white band of tiny crystals wraps around the nifty shoe-shaped matrix of this showy and rich rarity. Modest blue SW UV fluorescence. Ex Bob Trimingham Collection, purchased in 1977, and previously in the James Allen and Jenni Collections, according to the label. A MUST for the locality or species collector. Value?

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