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Vanadinite on Calcite (classic locale) Zukowski Coll.
- San Carlos Mine, San Carlos, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Cabinet, 10.4 x 6.8 x 3.2 cm
- Start Time: 01/20/2011 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 01/27/2011 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
An excellent, CABINET plate from the classic, but now hard to obtain, source of the San Carlos Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. Diverging sprays of lustrous, translucent, honey-brown, textbook hexagonal, vanadinite prisms to about 4 mm are attractively peppered on the undulating matrix of lustrous, translucent, hematite-tinted calcite rhombs. This is a RARE (especially the calcite), large combination specimen in this quality and crystal form. These came out in the 1960s and 70s, with none since. Ex Zukowski Collection. Valued at $400-500.