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Kleinite (ultra rare mercury halide)
- McDermitt Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada
- Small Cabinet, 6.2 x 4.9 x 3.9 cm
- Start Time: 09/23/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/29/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A very rich and excellent specimen of lustrous, bright yellow, kleinite microcrystals richly covering the starkly contrasting, gray cristobalite matrix from the McDermitt Mine of Nevada. Old material collected in the mid-1980s. Kleinite is an ultra rare mecury halide, known from only 3 localities, worldwide! Valued $200-250.