Neptunite on Natrolite (Belsky Coll.)

Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito Co., California
Small Cabinet, 6.1 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm
Start Time: 03/11/2011 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/17/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Sharply terminated, highly lustrous, jet-black neptunite crystals to 2.1 cm (doubly terminated) are aesthetically strewn on the starkly contrasting snow-white natrolite-covered, elongate serpentine matrix on this classic and showy combination specimen from the famous and now essentially extinct, Dallas Gem Mine. Periphery wear is noted, but all of the interior crystals are pristine. Older matreial from the Howard Belsky Collection.

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