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Libethenite
- Rokana Mine, Kitwe, Copperbelt Prov., Zambia
- Thumbnail, 2.3 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm
- Start Time: 03/01/2010 1:30:00 am (CST)
- End Time: 03/04/2010 6:45:32 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A superb thumbnail of sharp, highly lustrous, dark green libethenite crystals to 9 mm with with flashes of gemmy, green fire mounded on a bit of matrix from the Rokana Mine of Zambia. During the 1970's this locality produced what is the world's finest examples of libethenite. The mine closed in the 1980s.