Pennine & Genthite on Chromite (rare old combo) Belsky Coll.

Item Description

A rare old combination from this classic Eastern US locale, famous for the world's finest brucite specimens. Most specimens came out between 1828 and 1881, when the main ore body was exhausted. The top of the sculptural hefty chromite ore matrix hosts numerous sharp, lustrous platy aggegates of penninite, a synonym of pennine, a pseudo-trigonal variety of clinochlore. It is VERY RARE from the Wood's Chrome Mine. The contrasting surface of the vug is covered with also RARE for the locale, genthite, a green mixture of pecoraite-nepouite mixed with a smectite-group mineral. See the excellent Mineralogical Record article in the July-August, 2011, Vol. 42, No. 4 issue. A VERY RARE, choice and highly desirable old-time combination piece from the Howard Belsky Collection. It comes with a Hugh Ford label dating from 1946-57. A MUST for the species or locality collector!