Papagoite from Artonvilla Mine, Limpopo, South Africa

Exhibition history: The 2012 49th Munich Gem and Mineral Show’s African Mineral theme, special invitation on African mineral thumbnails, October 2012, with show label, and in “The Best of the Best: Prize Minerals from the Vaults of Arizona Collectors”, held at the University of Arizona’s Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, from February 8 to December 23, 2014, with label. Significantly, this was illustrated in the Rocks & Minerals' Connoisseur’s Choice article, Vol. 97, No., p. 155, 2022. Also a full page photo was published in Mineralogical Record, Refined Elegance: The Small Treasures of Mineralogy, November 2022.

Photo credit: Jeff Scovil