|
Mineral Specimens with Reddingite
- 5 specimens selected
5.9 x 4.9 x 3.9 cm. This pegmatite is known for its suite of high-quality phosphate species, more than for gem crystals. It is very similar, in fact, to the famous Tip Top Mine in South Dakota for the major phosphate species found. However, hureaulite from this locality has a more beautiful, intense rich color and lustre, and is arranged in such pretty aggregates against contrasting lustrous brown reddingite, that I consider these to be among the more beautiful examples of the species. Usually you find the hureaulite dispersed as a flat carpet of small 2-5mm crystals on matrix shards. Few specimens have relief and well-defined aesthetics: but this piece has a sharp, superb cluster approximately 3 cm tall perched atop the specimen. It is 3-dimensional and leaps out.
An extremely rich and excellent CABINET specimen of highly lustrous salmon-pink hureaulite crystals to 8 mm with reddingite (brown) and rockbridgeite (black). The Jocao Mine of Minas Gerais produces some of the very finest crystals of these uncommon phosphates. Good rarity and also attrractive! 10.7 x 5.5 x 5.2 cm
Extremely colorufl, rich specimen featuring two rare phosphates from small finds here, several years ago. one of the best thumbnails of the material i have seen!. 2.3 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
This pegmatite is known for its suite of high-quality phosphate species , more than for gem crystals. It is very similar, in fact, to the famous Tip Top Mine in South Dakota for the major phosphate species found. However, hureaulite from this locality has a more beautiful, intense rich color and lustre, and is arranged in such pretty aggregates against contrasting lustrous brown reddingite, that I consider these to be among the more beautiful examples of the species. Usually you find the hureaulite dispersed as a flat carpet of small 2-5mm crystals on matrix shards. Few specimens have relief and well-defined aesthetics: but this piece has a sharp, superb cluster approximately 3 cm tall perched atop the specimen. It is 3-dimensional and leaps out. It is good enough for the "display collector" who doesn't care about the rarity, and its at the same time good enough for the rare species collector who wants display-quality examples when possible. I have seen and handled many specimens from the sporadic finds here that seem to have started to crop to the market in the mid-90s, and of them this is by far one of the best- and the prettiest, certainly, for my taste in aesthetics.
ex. Sam Nasser
extremely colorufl, rich specimen featuring two rare phosphates from small finds here, several years ago. one of the best thumbnails of the material i have seen!.
- 5 specimens selected
Rob Lavinsky, rob@irocks.com
All Content and Design ©1996-2012 The Arkenstone
Mineral Specimens by species; or
by specimen id.
|
share specimen![Hureaulite, Reddingite from Cigana claim (Jocão claim), Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169942a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169942a.jpg)
![Hureaulite, Reddingite from Cigana claim (Jocão claim), Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-169942b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-169942b.jpg)
![Hureaulite, Reddingite, Rockbridgeite from Cigana claim (Jocão claim), Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-23705a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-23705a.jpg)
![Reddingite, Hureaulite from Cigana claim (Jocão claim), Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/mdpics/MD-52167a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-52167a.jpg)
![Hureaulite on Reddingite from Cigana Mine (Jocao Mine), Galileia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/rare08-45a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rare08-45a.jpg)
![Hureaulite on Reddingite from Cigana Mine (Jocao Mine), Galileia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/rare08-45b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rare08-45b.jpg)
![Hureaulite on Reddingite from Cigana Mine (Jocao Mine), Galileia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/rare08-45c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rare08-45c.jpg)
![Reddingite on Hureaulite from Jocão Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil [db_pics/pics/sn40a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/sn40a.jpg)