Legrandite (from TYPE LOCALITY) ex. Prince coll.

Item Description

Small, sparkling rosettes of brilliantly yellow, translucent legrandite crystals crown this contrasting matrix of drusy siderite, itself fairly sparkly. Most people ASSUME that the Ojuela Mine in Durango was the type locality for legrandite but this is not true?it was found here first, if more sparsely and in smaller crystals. To this day, specimens of this original type locality material are extremely scarce on the market and only turn up in old collections, generally of people who heavily collected Mexico material in the 1950s- 1960s when it came out. The Ojuela mine produced larger legrandites, and more of it, at a later date - but the habit is completely different from what you see here. This is a large, beautiful plate and should be considered an extreme rarity, a piece of mineralogical history almost by today's standards. Valued $2000-2250. ex. Consie Prince collection