Muscovite (Terry Ledford Coll.)

Rist Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander Co., North Carolina
Small Cabinet, 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 cm
Start Time: 07/27/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/03/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Splendent pearlescent brown hexagonal muscovite plates form a very fine two-sided specimen from this famous emerald and hiddenite deposit. The hole really adds pizzazz to this to this piece. Specimens of this quality are rare and are seldom on the market. Formerly in the collection of Terry Ledford, well-known North Carolina specimen miner and mineral dealer, who died tragically in an emerald mining accident in 2014. See his biography in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1774.

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