Wardite (HUGE crystal for species)

Item Description

Wardite is a rare phosphate. This wardite crystal is from a small pocket found about 2003-4, which I bought much of from a French-Canadian collector at the time. This is a HUGE crystal for the species, really quite unprecedented by most standards, except for a few aberrant examples from Brazil in days long past. For Canada, it is about 5 times the size of most so-called large wardites I have seen, and about 10 times the size of a typical wardite crystal you might see on the market. I value it highly perhaps, at $2500 or so, but then...find another?! For the species, an important piece. For somebody with a collection of display rarities, one of those things that will stump people when they look at it, not expecting to see such a colossal wardite and perhaps placing it first as a powellite or scheelite from the large size and pseudo-octohedral habit. For me, I think this one of the best specimens of any kind we have ever put to auction.