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large Stokesite (rare tin species) on albite 
Back to BRAZIL AND PERU, SPECIAL AUCTION
Urucum mine, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Starting Time:5/23/2010 06:30:00 PM(CDT)
- Ending Time:6/1/2010 06:30:00 PM(CDT)
Time Left:Auction Is Closed
- Size:5.1 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm
- Size Description:miniature
Description:This matrix of thin albite blades in a solid cluster, hosts a solid ball of stokesite crystals that is rather large for the species and locale, at 1.3 cm across. When these first came to market, balls like this might have fetched $750-1000. They are the world's best examples of this very rare crystallized tin species, I was told. Now, people got all they needed, and more still trickle out form time to time, so the prices have seemingly come down. Still and all, this is a superb, display quality miniature with an excellent example of stokesite and should be worth owning at a fair price.
