Titanite (var: Chromian Titanite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

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This locality is world famous for producing what are arguably the finest examples of "Chrome Titanite" in the world. It certainly has produced the largest crystals I've seen of this intense green variety, and some of the finest TRANSPARENT crystals, which sadly were nearly all faceted into gemstones, so very few exist. This piece features typical flattened "wedge"-shaped crystals of Chrome Titanite measuring up to around 2.5 mm in semi-parallel growth sitting on host rock matrix. The crystals are small, but the color is intense and they are notably sharp and lustrous. Beautiful, classic material and almost non-existent on the market now as nothing has been found years. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#12680). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).