Phenakite on Albite & Orthoclase (Kay Robertson Coll.)

Mt Antero, Chaffee Co., Colorado
Miniature, 4.7 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm
Start Time: 08/29/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 09/05/2019 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Phenakite, Be-silicate, is a highly desirable primary accessory species from Mt Antero, famous for very fine Colorado aquamarine specimens. Two, classic, glassy, translucent, colorless rhombohedrons, to 5 mm, are jauntily set atop the sculptural miniature matrix of albite and orthoclase. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 8921 and acquired at Tucson in 1980. 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). Classic Antero phenakite.

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