Aragonite ("cast") (rare locality specimen) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)

Item Description

While many people are fimiliar with the beautiful Smithsonites from this locality, most collectors probably have not seen the beautiful green Aragonites found at the Monte Cristo Mine in Rush, Arkansas. This piece features attractive, "needle"-like thin prismatic crystals of ocean blue-green colored Aragonite intergrown to form a flowing an eye-catching miniature sized specimen. No matrix to be seen, but the back of the piece shows a very well-preserved "cast" after a prexisting mineral, possibly Quartz or Calcite. A must have if you collect carbonate minerals, Arkansas minerals or oddball locality specimens. From the collection of Henry de Linde (March 21, 1923 – April 4, 2019) of Hot Spring, Arkansas. Henry was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Arkansas mining and mineral collecting. Along with being a miner, mineral collector and an amateur mineralogist, de Linde was one of the founders of the Coon Creek Association mineral club. He was the owner of several key localities in Arkansas including the Diamond Jo Quarry (on the south rim of Magnet Cove), the type locality for Delindeite, which was named in his honor in 1987.