Chloritoid (RARE - old PA)

Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden Co., Massachusetts
Small Cabinet, 8.7 x 6.6 x 3.2 cm
Start Time: 02/18/2018 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/22/2018 6:30:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed

Item Description

Chloritoid is an uncommon complex Fe-Mg-Mn-Al silicate of the Chloritoid Group. It is EXTREMELY RARE from the historic old emery (corundite) metabauxite deposits at Chester. Highly lustrous plates of greenish-gray chloritoid cover the essentially solid chloritoid matrix on this very rich and rare old-timer from an East Coast collection. Comes century-old faded and torn label. A great rarity and MUST for the locality or species collector.

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