Clintonite (OLD - Type Locality) with Spinel ex Mullane Coll.

Amity, Warwick, Orange Co., New York
Small Cabinet, 9.3 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm
Start Time: 06/01/2009 6:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/11/2009 6:03:59 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Seybertite is an old-time synonym for clintonite, a RARE Mica Group mineral species. This showy, OLD-TIME specimen is from the famous New York Type Locality of Amity and features a large, well-placed, pearlescent, brown plate of clintonite set in orthoclase-rich matrix. A BONUS on this CLASSIC specimen are the two, broken, octahedral, spinel crystals embedded in the side of the matrix. Ex Mullane Collection.

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