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Kleinite (ultra rare mercury halide)
- McDermitt Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada
- Small Cabinet, 7.0 x 4.9 x 4.1 cm
- Start Time: 12/01/2011 7:00:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 12/08/2011 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A very rich and excellent specimen of lustrous, rich golden-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.