Uvarovite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

The great chrome mine at Sarany has produced some of the most colorful and impressive "Alpine-type" Russian mineral specimens, including the finest This specimen features small sparkling Uvarovite crystals with intense emerald-green color on chromite matrix. The species was named after Count Sergey Semeonovich Uvarov, the former president of the Academy of St Petersburg. These specimens have become increasingly difficult to obtain in recent years, and are certainly recognized as some of th finest in the world. We have photographed the crystals with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate their quality. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#11188). 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).