Minium (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Miniature, 4.3 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Start Time: 05/30/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/06/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Broken Hill is famous for its beautiful color specimens. This large lead / zinc / silver deposit started back in 1883 and operated for many decades. This piece is a classic and hard to find miniature specimen of Minium featuring glowing red-orange colored Minium sitting on lead ore matrix. Very attractive up close, and certainly worth adding to any secondary ore mineral collection or a suite of Broken Hill minerals. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#1195). 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).

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