Smithsonite var. Cadmium rich (New Find)

Item Description

A 5 mm banded layer of shimmering, waxy, translucent, straw-yellow, nubby, bubbly smithsonite botryoids rests atop a thicker layer of traslucent, banded gray to blue-gray smithsonite on a thin matrix crust on this rich large two-color specimen from a New Find from an obscure Chinese locale. The yellow color is thought to be due to cadmiun content, as with yellow smithsonite from Tsumeb, Italy, and Mexico. The yellow smithsonite GLOWS, when back lit. A very showy example from Yunnan Province. These are VERY similar to Italian smithsonites, from the 1800s, that cost an arm and a leg! And, those are super rare on the market. This new find really sets a new standard and gives the rest of us a chance to acquire one in this style at a reasonable price point.