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Phosphophyllite
- Unificada Mine, Cerro Rico, Potosi City, Potosi Dept., Bolivia
- Small Cabinet, 6.6 x 3.0 x 2.9 cm
- Start Time: 04/15/2011 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 04/21/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Phosphophyllite, with its unique blue-green color and gemminess, is one of the rarest and most desirable mineral species in the world - definitely a "Holy Grail" species. This rare, larger matrix specimen, from a recent find features a large, 1.9 cm, isolated, cleaved crystal and a 3.0 cm long, 2-8 mm thick vein of phosphophyllite sandwiched between the sulfide and quartz-rich matrix. A good reference piece. And it is a matrix specimen, which is uncommon in itself.