Szenicsite with Cuprian-Powellite (Type Locality)

Item Description

It is truly amazing to discover a beautiful new mineral species in today's world, in crystals that can reach several centimeters. This is exactly what happened in the early 1990s with the discovery and naming of Szenicsite, a one-locality, ULTRA RARE, copper molybdate with ELECTRIC GREEN COLOR. This was the ONLY major find of the species, and not even a trickle of good specimens followed the first few pockets collected by Terry Szenics. All good specimens came through him. This is excellent material with a lamellar cluster of bladed, lustrous, electric-green, crystals. AND --- this piece also has rare, translucent cuprian-powellite crystals. The beautiful dark apple-green color and wet-look luster are both superb. Excellent yellow fluorescence. An exceptional combination thumbnail for this material found only at this remote locality in a few pockets over 10 years ago. Collected by Skip Szenics. As a thumbnail, this is way more than just a reference example. Valued $500-600