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Siderite w/ Quartz (classic CT locale)
- Roxbury Iron Mine, Mine Hill, Litchfield Co., Connecticut
- Small Cabinet, 8.1 x 6.4 x 2.4 cm
- Start Time: 05/25/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/30/2013 6:33:20 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
The Roxbury Iron Mines are well known and the first confirmed mining activity was in 1750. They were a big part of early American mining. The mines were first worked for silver and lead, then iron. This sculptural specimen of nearly solid siderite has just a bit of quartz. Sharp, really lustrous platy crystals are chocolate brown, BUT have fabulous burnt-orange iridescence, when rotated in light! Undoubtably older material, but no proof.