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Mimetite (rare locality specimen) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
- Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
- Toenail, 3.1 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm
- Start Time: 07/08/2021 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/15/2021 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $80
Item Description
A wonderful thumbnail specimen from the Mount Bonnie Mine featuring a handful of sharp, well-formed, fairly thick, tabular, hexagonal crystals measuring up to 6 mm across sitting on gossan matrix. The Mimetites show a wonderful habit with pronounced basal faces and modifying pyramidal faces on every side. The color is a soft yellow tone. Very attractive up close, with only one broken edge to one of the Mimetite crystals. A great specimen of this now very hard to find material. From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds who passed in August of 2020. Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.
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Bidding History
| Bid Amount | Bid Time |
|---|---|
| $80 | 07/15/2021 6:23:13 pm (CDT) |
| $70 | 07/14/2021 4:26:40 am (CDT) |
| $60 | 07/14/2021 1:18:49 am (CDT) |
| $50 | 07/13/2021 5:14:51 am (CDT) |
| $45 | 07/11/2021 11:27:56 am (CDT) |
| $44 | 07/11/2021 11:27:55 am (CDT) |
| $40 | 07/11/2021 11:27:48 am (CDT) |
| $35 | 07/11/2021 11:27:48 am (CDT) |
| $10 | 07/10/2021 3:24:22 am (CDT) |