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Kottigite (rare arsenate)
- Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
- Thumbnail, 1.7 x 0.6 x 0.2 cm
- Start Time: 03/16/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 03/26/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Kottigite is a VERY RARE mineral from the famous Mina Ojuela and this a showy thumbnail specimen of platy, lustrous, grayish-blue kottigite. Kottigite is related to legrandite, of which, Mina Ojuela is renowned. This is a pristine, floater crystal, although the ends and part of one side are contacted. Highly representative of the rare species and famous locale.