Baryte and Calcite (classic New Mexico) Robertson Coll.

Item Description

Mineral specimens are RARE from the Juanita Mine, compared to those from the nearby famed Kelly Mine. This is an exotic, colorful and rare combination. A sculptural jackstraw cluster of translucent, lustrous, reddish-orange, iron oxide-tinted barite blades is dramatically and preferentially peppered with starkly contrasting rosettes of bone-white paper calcite rhombs. Such combinations are VERY RARE from the Kelly Mine and are diagnostic of the Juanita Mine. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 5543 and acquired at the MSSC Show in 1968. 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). RARE, excellent quality 360-degree calcite and barite with only modest bruising from the Juanita Mine. A MUST for the locality or species collector.