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Mimetite (RARE California) Kay Robertson Coll.
- Morning Star Mine, Lavic, San Bernardino Co., California
- Small Cabinet, 5.1 x 3.1 x 2.1 cm
- Start Time: 12/06/2019 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 12/12/2019 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
| A VERY RARE and rich mimetite and wulfenite combination small cabinet from a most obscure California locale – the Morning Star Mine, Imperial Lode District, Lavic, in San Bernardino County. The sculptural gossan matrix is festooned with two generations of straw-yellow mimetite prisms - larger hexagonal crystals, to 3 mm and smaller rounded aggregates of crystals. Glassy wulfenite windowpanes and windowpane sections, to 4 mm, are scattered about on this super California comination rarity. Undoubtedly old-time material, but no proof. Lavic wulfenite was described in a 1921 article in the American Mineralogist. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 13001 and acquired in the latter part of her extensive collecting career. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien-Welt" November-December 2017). A rare, perhaps UNIQUE California combination from an obscure locale. A MUST for the California or species collector. |
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