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Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent) on Calcite viewBack to WEEKLY MIXED MINERAL LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - HUGE SET, Ends July 15

Mogilata deposit, September Mine, Madan, Bulgaria
  • Starting Time:7/10/2010 06:30:00 PM(CDT)
  • Ending Time:7/15/2010 06:30:00 PM(CDT)
  • Time Left:Auction Is Closed

  • Size:12.9 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
  • Size Description:CABINET

Description:A very showy and excellent, CABINET, combination specimen from a less well-known deposit at Madan. Complex, translucent, colorless, botryoidal-looking, stacks of flattened and rounded manganoan calcite rhombs are richly and aesthetically scattered on the matrix covered with diverging sprays of off-white, dogtooth calcite crystals. The manganoan calcite botryoids have very interesting, dogtooth ends. I really like the unusual form of thse manganoan calcites. A few iridescent, brassy, chalcopyrite crystals scattered about are a nice accent. Very fine combination material from this locale. Pretty orangey-pink fluorescence on the manganoan calcite.