Lazulite

Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Toenail, 3.3 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm
Start Time: 04/21/2016 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/28/2016 6:48:52 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Lazulite is a rare magnesium aluminum phosphate, and some of the finest, highly sought after, and best known specimens of this material come from this locality. The area around Rapid Creek is only accessible for a few months in the summer for collecting (it's under snow and ice the rest of the year), and is some of the most treacherous terrain in the world for collecting specimens. This specimen is a lovely display piece featuring excellent quality, sharp, very lustrous, very well formed, monoclinic, deep inky blue color crystals of Lazulite measuring up to a 7 mm associated with notably lustrous, sharp, gemmy brown Siderite and minor Quartz. A good quality specimen of this classic material.

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