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Roselite (Fioravanti Coll.)
- Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer Dist., Ouarzazate Prov., Morocco
- Small Cabinet, 6.1 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm
- Start Time: 04/22/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/01/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Lustrous, translucent, magenta roselite crystals to about 5 mm line a sculptural 4.0 cm vug on matrix. Some broken crystals are noted on the fridge of the vug, but this remains a fine example, with bright crystals. This showy and excellent older piece is from the Giancarlo Fioravanti Collection, who obtained this specimen from well-known Belgian mining engineer/geologist/mineral dealer and collector, Gilbert Gauthier, in Paris in 1974 in an exchange.