Roselite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
Small Cabinet, 5.6 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm
Start Time: 08/29/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 09/05/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Beautiful, classic, glowing, gemmy and lustrous, magenta colored crystals of Roselite measuring up to a few mm richly can be seen overgrowing rather gemmy, scalenohedral Calcites (some showing slight phantoms) on host rock matrix. We have photographed the piece with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. The best Roselites in the world are found at this locality. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#5773). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).

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