Pyrolusite (rare Mexico)

Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 7.5 x 7.1 x 4.9 cm
Start Time: 04/20/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 04/27/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed

Item Description

Pyrolusite is VERY RARE from the mines of the Mapimi area. MINDAT lists two localities, which includes the renowned Mina Ojuela and features only one photograph, a micro! This is a huge and exceptional solid small cabinet of the species, featuring intergrown sculptural diverging sprays of lustrous black blades with rounded terminations. It looks like a corsage. An impressive, rich and VERY RARE 360-degree example of the species. This super piece probably dates to the Mexico mineral specimen production heyday of the 1960s and 70s.

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