Rosasite (rare style) Bruce Murphy Coll.

Silver Bill Mine, Gleeson, Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona
Small Cabinet, 8.0 x 5.3 x 2.0 cm
Start Time: 11/02/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 11/09/2017 6:32:44 pm (CST)
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Item Description

Amazing, soft to the touch, felt-like, beautiful teal-blue rosasite botryoids line this striking, sculptural thin concave gossan crust. This well-known small extinct underground Arizona mine was intermittently active from 1893-1978. Classic, rich and RARE style rosasite from the Bruce Murphy Arizona Collection. See the March-April 1983 Mineralogical Record article on the Silver Bill Mine in Vol. 14, No. 2. A MUST for the species or locality collector.

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