Sursassite (rare) (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)

Item Description

Sursassite is a rare manganese aluminum hydroxy silicate. This piece features beautiful somewhat orange-copper colored "needle"-like crystals of Sursassite on host rock matrix. A very hard to find specimen of this rare species from Italy. From the worldwide collection of famed Italian mineral collector, field collector and author, Francesco Bedogne of Sondrio, Italy (Collection #2166) with two labels from Renato and Adriana Pagano. Bedogne wrote dozens of articles and several books about the mineralogy of Italian Alpine localities such as Val Bregaglia, Val Masino, Val Codera, Val Spluga, Valtellina and the famous Val Malenco. He was also the founder of the Valtellinese Mineralogical Institute.