Babingtonite

$1,600.00

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Although known for centuries from several Scandinavian localities, it is a relatively recent discovery in China, in 2006, that has furnished collectors with the finest individual crystals of Babingtonite, an uncommon calcium iron silicate hydroxide. Known simply as the "Babingtonite Occurrences", the outcrops from which these specimens came is in Qiaojia Co., Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. This superb small cabinet-sized display specimen from this find hosts several extremely well-formed lustrous black crystals of Babingtonite individually measuring to 1.7 cm in length and clustered at two ends of the specimen with a contrasting light green crystalline Prehnite and white crystalline Quartz matrix. A 1 cm area of yellowish, sharp, pointed Titanite micro-crystals is also evident. The reverse of the specimen is richly encrusted with more Babingtonite.