Torbernite (RARE - old - Type Locality) Kay Robertson Coll.

Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Small Cabinet, 7.7 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm
Start Time: 04/30/2017 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/04/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Torbernite specimens are SUPER RARE from this historic Erzgebirge Type Locality! Patches of iridescent apple-green, tabular, cubic crystals are richly scattered on all sides of the blocky quartz-rich gossan matrix. The striking large cluster of plates is 1.8 cm across. Ex Kay Robertson Collection. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record). The Brian Lloyd label dates to the 1970s. Value of such an extreme rarity from a famous old German locale?? A MUST for the species or locality collector.

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