Ilvaite (classic material) (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection).

Item Description

A beautiful display specimen featuring exceptionally sharpand lustrous Ilvaites measuring up to 1.3 cm from this old classic locality, probably 40-60 years out of the ground. It features equant, striated, jet-black wedge-shaped crystals sprinkled all over the underlying matrix. Virtually no damage and better in person. From the worldwide collection of famed Italian mineral collector, field collector and author, Francesco Bedogne of Sondrio, Italy (Collection #368). Bedogne wrote dozens of articles and several books about the mineralogy of Italian Alpine localities such as Val Bregaglia, Val Masino, Val Codera, Val Spluga, Valtellina and the famous Val Malenco. He was also the founder of the Valtellinese Mineralogical Institute. Valued at $950.