Spessartine Garnet on Microcline (RARE locality!) (recent find)

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Small Cabinet, 5.7 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Start Time: 10/24/2024 7:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/31/2024 6:48:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $675

Item Description

This piece comes from an isolated discovery in 2020 near Saint Catherine's Monastery. located at the foot of Mount Sinai on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. According to the entry on Wikipedia, this monastery, "was built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery". It's certainly not the kind of place that one would expect to be a mineral locality, but we acquired a small parcel of specimens collected by a local who dug them during the early days of the COVID pandemic. It's a new locality for specimens of any kind to the best of my knowledge, and they are fine quality to boot! This small cabinet specimen features many highly lustrous, incredibly well-formed, razor-sharp, textbook trapezohedral crystals of deep red Spessartine Garnet measuring to about 3 mm, sitting on grey-pink colored, blocky crystals of Microcline Feldspar. No major damage, and the little Garnets looks beautiful up close. If you collect Garnets or oddball/esoteric locality specimens, this is something new and interesting (and pretty) that you're not going to find anywhere else on the market. Don't miss out, we only have a select few to offer.

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Bidding History

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$675 10/31/2024 6:44:38 pm (CDT)
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