Vivianite on Ice Age Mammoth tusk (RARE!) Soregaroli Coll.

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A UNIQUE British Columbia instance of mineralogy combining with very large Ice Age mammals! Scattered crusts of blue-gray vivianite cover both sides and edges of the flat section of slightly curved Mammoth tusk! From Wikipedia: "In 1971 workmen excavating in an open-pit copper mine at Babine Lake discovered the partly articulated skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth. The bones were taken from silty pond deposits overlain by very thick boulder-clay deposited by the last glacier that covered the area. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the animal sank in sticky pond deposits about 34,000 years ago. A replica of some of the Mammoth's Bones can be seen at the Granisle Museum." Ex Art Soregaroli Collection. Here's your chance to own a unique piece of Canadian Ice Age history of a recently formed phosphate mineral laying directly on the source tusk. Value?