Jamesonite (Consie Prince Coll.)

Item Description

Scintillating, metallic-gray, jamesonite needles are festooned on the front of the sculptural mounded matrix of pyrite, sphalerite and quartz on this showy and excellent older Zacatecas specimen. Jamesonite (lead-iron-antimony sulfide) is one of a few sulfide minerals that form fine acicular crystals that appear as hair-like fibers. Jamesonite has been called feather ore and grey antimony. Ex Consie Prince Collection and acquired from Julian and Ruth Blakely. The piece is mounted in a plastic box with a Blakely Mineral Gems label from Greenville, Mississippi. Julian Blakely operated a shop there from about 1964 to about 1980. Classic and rich, older material.