Pyrrhotite on Calcite (Ed Bancroft Coll.)

Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Miniature, 4.3 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Start Time: 08/04/2012 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/09/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Santa Eulalia pyrrhotites are a Mexican classic and are some of the best in the world. An impressive, blocky, tapered, hexagonal crystal with typical layering, luster and rust-brown color is aesthetically attached to calcite rhomb matrix. A very showy, complete all-around and classic crystal, that is pristine. Hard-to-fine material in this quality from the 1960s or 70s. Ex Ed Bancroft Collection.

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