Manganese-bearing Calcite w/ Calcite (Owen Coll.)

Item Description

Pretty pastel-pink spherical aggregates of glassy, translucent manganoan calcite rhombs richly and attractively cover three sides of the interesting, sculptural layered small cabinet matrix. Cute scattered clusters of brown, oxide-tinted calcite scalenohedrons, to 9 mm, peek out adjacent to the manganoan calcite clusters and are a typical accessory to such combinations from the famous Wessels Mine. Neon-orange fluorescence under both SW and LW UV light! Ex Collin and Helga Owen Collection of South Africa. A very rich and showy 3-dimensional combination example of the species from the well-known locale.