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Ajoite included in Quartz (New Find) 
Back to Collection Liquidation Auctions Part II - end Jan 21
Messina Mine, Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Starting Time:1/14/2010 06:30:00 PM(CST)
- Ending Time:1/21/2010 06:45:00 PM(CST)
Time Left:Auction Is Closed
- Size:8.0 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm
- Size Description:Small Cabinet
Description:A pleasing, powder-blue, 4 mm ajoite ball with a stunning halo of ajoite is strikingly included in the face of a glassy, 5.3 cm, quartz crystal attached to a scuptural crust. The ajoite halo is surreal and the double refraction at the quartz crystal edge is really neat. This aesthetic piece is from a New Find at the famous Messina Mine of South Africa. A ding in the face of one crystal is noted, but this is an impressive, highly representive example of the ultra-rare copper silicate, named after its discovery locality, the New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Arizona.
