SOLD
MD-284759
Mimetite
Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 7.7 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm
SOLD
Santa Eulalia is the poor stepchild in most people's minds to the commonly seen, more yellow-orange mimetite from the San Pedro Corralitos locality. However, this is only because the good old stuff from here is so uncommon (circa 1960s-1970s). This is a solid specimen of splayed, mushroom-shaped rosettes of crystals with flattish tops. The crystals are lustrous, slightly translucent, orange-amber colored, really quite unique and different from the rounded material out of the more common locale (San Pedro Corralitos). And for importance, there were a lot fewer pieces like this found at this locale, so it ranks higher than any comparably sized piece from the Ojuela or Corralitos locales in Mexico - and again, has a different look in any case. From the well-known Tucson collection of 40-year collector, Harold Urish.