Neptunite on Natrolite (Sam Cooper Coll.)

Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito Co., California
Cabinet, 10.5 x 5.2 x 4.2 cm
Start Time: 05/21/2011 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/26/2011 6:33:54 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Highly lustrous, jet-black, neptunite crystals to 2.3 cm are aesthetically scattered on the sculptural, CABINET, serpentine matrix covered with starkly contrasting snow-white natrolite. The striking, complexly terminated neptunite is 2.2 cm. Classic, very showy and excellent, large combination material from this famous and now extinct locale. Ex Sam Cooper Collection.

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