Minium (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa County, Arizona
Thumbnail, 2.8 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm
Start Time: 10/04/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/11/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Minium is a relatively rare lead oxide and specimens from the Tonopah-Belmont Mine are virtually impossible to obtain. This piece fatures bright reddish colored Minium in micro aggregates associated with beautifully contrasting blue-green Malachite or Rosasite on matrix. A beautiful specimen for any thumbnail collector, secondary ore mineral collector or for anybody who loves Arizona mienrals. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#10948). 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).

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