Lazulite (great quality)

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 wonderful display piece featuring excellent quality, sharp, very lustrous, very well formed, monoclinic, deep inky blue color crystals of Lazulite measuring up to 1.1 cm associated with notably lustrous, sharp, gemmy brown Siderite with minor Quartz on matrix. A showy and good quality specimen of this classic material. This one is better than the majority we've offered in the auctions recently, and certainly worth picking up simply because there's a 1cm+ Lazulite crystal on the specimen.