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Platinum - sharp floater cubic crystal
- Konder massif, Ayan-Maya dist., Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
- Ex. Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals
- Thumbnail, 0.8 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
- Start Time: 03/30/2023 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 04/08/2023 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $1,800
Item Description
This sharp, textbook 4.35-gram crystal is solid platinum, from perhaps the single most famous locality in all the world for finely crystallized platinum specimens - the Konder area in Russia. This was an early specimen donated to the museum by founders Richard and Helen Rice, and has remained there ever since (30 years or so). These came out in the 1990s when the Russian government officially started to allow export of natural platinum from this region (also this is when the sperrylites came out). It has an interesting hopper-growth feature in one corner, an indented reverse-cube. As with many specimens in this auction, it was on display in the museum for a number of decades.
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Bidding History
| Bid Amount | Bid Time |
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| $1,800 | 04/08/2023 6:24:41 pm (CDT) |
| $1,750 | 04/08/2023 6:24:41 pm (CDT) |
| $1,733 | 04/08/2023 6:21:20 pm (CDT) |
| $1,683 | 04/08/2023 6:21:19 pm (CDT) |
| $1,615 | 04/08/2023 5:56:30 pm (CDT) |
| $1,565 | 04/08/2023 5:56:30 pm (CDT) |
| $1,550 | 04/08/2023 5:29:17 pm (CDT) |
| $1,500 | 04/08/2023 5:29:17 pm (CDT) |
| $1,435 | 04/08/2023 5:28:57 pm (CDT) |
| $1,385 | 04/08/2023 5:28:57 pm (CDT) |
| $1,057 | 04/08/2023 4:30:10 pm (CDT) |
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| $982 | 04/08/2023 4:25:57 pm (CDT) |
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