Aragonite with Sauconite (RARE locality specimen)

Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
Small Cabinet, 7.8 x 4.3 x 4.2 cm
Start Time: 08/01/2020 7:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/08/2020 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $212

Item Description

While Aragonite is not a rare species worldwide, it is quite difficult to get your hands on a good crystallized specimen from Sterling Hill. I've only seen a handful of them over the years, and they are prized by Franklin collectors. This small cabinet specimen is loaded with sharp, lustrous, gemmy to translucent, white / colorless, thin prismatic crystals of Aragonite measuring up to 3.3 cm long sitting on a very thin layer of black matrix. The piece is accompanied by a label from noted Franklin mineral dealers Ewald and Helen Gerstmann, that states the brown mineral associated on the specimen is Sauconite, a very rare hydrated sodium, zinc, aluminum silicate. I have never seen a specimen of Aragonite with Sauconite like this before. If you collect Franklin minerals, this is a showy and good quality display specimen of this rare and eye-catching material with a very hard to find associated species.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$212 08/08/2020 6:13:50 pm (CDT)
$202 08/08/2020 3:28:59 pm (CDT)
$200 08/08/2020 3:28:59 pm (CDT)
$160 08/08/2020 3:28:44 pm (CDT)
$150 08/08/2020 3:28:44 pm (CDT)
$110 08/08/2020 1:51:42 pm (CDT)
$100 08/08/2020 1:51:42 pm (CDT)
$90 08/08/2020 7:28:40 am (CDT)
$80 08/08/2020 7:28:40 am (CDT)
$70 08/08/2020 7:28:12 am (CDT)
$60 08/08/2020 7:28:12 am (CDT)
$50 08/08/2020 7:28:00 am (CDT)
$45 08/08/2020 7:28:00 am (CDT)
$40 08/07/2020 5:31:36 pm (CDT)
$35 08/07/2020 5:31:36 pm (CDT)
$30 08/07/2020 4:35:17 pm (CDT)
$25 08/07/2020 4:35:17 pm (CDT)
$20 08/06/2020 7:47:59 pm (CDT)
$15 08/06/2020 7:47:26 pm (CDT)
$10 08/06/2020 12:42:48 pm (CDT)