Muscovite w/ Rutile (Terry Ledford personal Coll.)

Rist Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina
Miniature, 4.9 x 3.7 x 0.7 cm
Start Time: 10/20/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/26/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A cute 4 mm spray of lustrous, sharp, wine-red rutile crystals is aesthetically set on one side of the pristine, hexagonal, splendent pearlescent brown muscovite plates from this famous emerald and hiddenite deposit. Specimens of this combination quality are rare and are seldom on the market. Formerly in the collection of Terry Ledford, well-known North Carolina specimen miner and mineral dealer, who died tragically in an emerald mining accident in 2014. See his biography in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1774.

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