Silver with Chrysocolla, et al. (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

A notably hard to find association specimen from the Black Pine Mine featuring first and foremost, Silver, seen in small platy crystalline examples measuring to about 2 mm, which are scattered over a massive blue-green Chrysocolla matrix. Additional small spots of Hemimorphite, Azurite, Malachite and Aurichalcite can be seen in various spots on the piece. It's one of the VERY few pieces to feature Silver that we've encountered from this famous locality. Formerly in the collection of Joe McCown Jr.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 10,159; 1113 MT.9. 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.
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