Galena w/ Siderite (classic locale) Kay Robertson Coll.

Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Miniature, 3.8 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm
Start Time: 01/20/2019 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 01/24/2019 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

A classic and showy combination miniature plate from the famous historic mines at Neudorf. Intergrown, lustrous, metallic-gray, complex galena crystals are accented with lustrous, translucent brown siderite rhombs. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 2787 and acquired in March,1963. 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). A fine old-timer, as the last mine closed in 1903.

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