Rhodochrosite

Item Description

When it comes to Rhodochrosite from Colorado, people immediately think of the Sweet Home Mine, and probably the Sunnyside Mine, but Colorado has a lot of localities for Rhodochrosite. The Champion Mine near Lake City is fairly well-known to Colorado collectors, but probably not many people outside of Colorado are aware of it, and specimens are seldom available on the market. The piece features small, pale pink color, compressed rhombohedra of Rhodochrosite forming "rosette"-esque groups associated with dark black-brown Sphalerite and minor Pyrite on Quartz matrix. Please note that the piece does have two saw marks on the back. This is certainly a worthwhile, and rather hefty specimen from this hard to find locality in southwestern Colorado. You won't find many of these around anymore, so if you collect Colorado minerals or worldwide Rhodochrosites, do not miss out.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 14.1.1.4 CO.19; 8681. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
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