Smithsonite (Cadmium-bearing) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Oronogo Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri
Small Cabinet, 6.5 x 4.0 x 1.5 cm
Start Time: 12/14/2017 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 12/21/2017 6:45:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

A showy, classic, old time historic display specimen of waxy botryoidal greenish-yellow (Cadmium-bearing) Smithsonite on matrix from Oronogo, Missouri, about 5 miles north of Joplin. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#2090). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Velt" November-December 2017).

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