Ludlamite (classic material)

Item Description

The finest crystallized specimens of Ludlamite from any locality in the United States are those from the famed Blackbird Mine. This piece is a good representative example hosting a coverage of lustrous, well-formed, gemmy, rich green colored monoclinic crystals measuring to about 8 mm, sitting on matrix that contains small amounts of Pyrite. PLEASE NOTE: This material can be a bit crumbly and unstable, and this specific piece has been stabilized with super glue in order to keep it from falling apart.
The piece was formerly in the collection of Bart Bowles, who obtained it from his collecting partner, Ned Blanford.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 9715; 40.3.5.1 ID.2. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information