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Manganoan Calcite (super fluorescence)
- Androvo Mine, Erma Reka, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
- Cabinet, 14.8 x 7.0 x 4.1 cm
- Start Time: 05/30/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 06/03/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Glassy, translucent, pretty pastel-pink, manganoan calcite scalenohedrons with flashing, stepped-growth, terminations cover the sculptural, CABINET plate on this showy and excellent specimen from a much less well-known mine in Bulgaria. This fine piece is in super shape, with only modest periphery wear noted. Mined in 2005, according to the label. SUPER orange-pink fluorescence!!