Large Graphite xls (rare) (ex Vajdak Coll.)

Chilson Hill Mine, Ticonderoga, Essex Co., New York,
Miniature, 5.0 x 2.4 x 1.6 cm
Start Time: 06/30/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 07/07/2011 6:32:45 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Rare, large for the locale, mirror-bright, battleship gray, flattened to blocky graphite crystals to 1.0 cm are nicely scattered on the graphitic matrix on this fine specimen from the well-known Chilson Hill Mine, near Ticonderoga, New York. Mining started in the early 1850s at Lead Hill! See the Mineralogical Record article in Vol. 14, #1, 1983. Ex Josef Vajdak Collection.

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