Pyromorphite on Barite (John Schneider Coll.)

Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Limousin, France
Miniature, 4.4 x 3.4 x 2.1 cm
Start Time: 04/23/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/30/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An aesthetic, upright, jackstraw cluster of lustrous, tapering, olive-green pyromorphite prisms on barite matrix from the famous Les Farges Mine of France and the John Schneider Pyromorphite Collection. The crystals on this excellent piece have the highly desirable hoppered terminations with mustard-colored tips and reach 1.5 cm. CLASSIC material from this famous mine, that closed in 1981.

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