Vanadinite on Baryte

Item Description

This is a wonderful piece of this most classic material from Mibladen, where the finest Vanadinites in the world have been coming for decades. The geography and climate is largely responsible for these specimens to have formed where they did, as the dryness in area created an environment for lead and vanadium oxidize and crystallize without the disruption of precipitation. This piece features fine quality, sharp, lustrous, deep red colored tabular hexagonal crystals of Vanadinite measuring up to 8 mm across, sitting on most desirable white bladed Baryte matrix. I think most collectors would agree that white Baryte is the most optimal matrix for these excellent Vanadinite crystals. A few small contacts are visible, but the piece is largely in very good condition overall and quite showy in person.
From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds who passed in August of 2020 (#RR0427). Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.