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Stokesite on Cleavelandite
- Corrego do Urucum, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Thumbnail, 3.1 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm
- Start Time: 03/16/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 03/26/2009 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Stokesite is an ULTRA RARE calcium, tin silicate. A gorgeous, little, 1.0 cm, radial spray (it looks like a corsage) of glassy stokesite crystals is beautifully perched atop a cluster of pearlescent, parallel-growth cleavelandite blades. This excellent specimen is from the famous Corrego do Urucum pegmatite of Brazil and is a very uncommon, gemmy spray of the species. Most Urucum stokesites are spherical, radial aggregates. Older material, for which I believe I paid Carlos Barbosa around $180-200 for, back in the late 90s