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Kutnohorite ps. After Calcite (RARE) Charlie Key
- N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Miniature, 4.5 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
- Start Time: 12/10/2017 7:00:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 12/14/2017 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Kutnohorite and calcite are both RARE from the renowned and closed N'Chwaning I Mine, source of some of the world's finest rhodochrosites in the late 1970s. According to the dealer label of knowledgeable African dealer Marshall Sussman, this is an ultra-rare pseudomorph of lustrous, bright pink kutnohorite after sculptural intergrown sprays of elongated calcite prisms on a sliver of manganese matrix. Showy and RARE 360-degree pseudomorph from the Charlie Key dealer stock.
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