Bi-colored Smithsonite (classic locale) Robertson Coll.

El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 6.5 x 5.7 x 3.1 cm
Start Time: 03/08/2018 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/15/2018 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Beautiful bi-colored translucent banded smithsonite from the famous and extinct El Refugio Mine at Choix. A gorgeous blue-zone zone is layered between pretty pink on this showy and excellent botryoidal crust. The colors light up, when backlit. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 5757 and acquired in 1969, during the heyday of mining here. 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). Classic Choix smithsonite with fine color. 195 grams mass.

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