Smithsonite on Fluorite (old classic) ex Trimingham Coll.

Item Description

Translucent, mustard-yellow botryoidal smithsonite lines vug on the microcrystalline purple fluorite matrix on this showy, highly representative and uncommon combination piece from a small, very interesting old Irish zinc mine worked in the 1860s. Such material is hard to come by, today. Modest purple fluorescence on the fluorite. Ex Bob Trimingham Collection.