Source volume: 44, issue: 5, PDF page: 56. Label: Figure 31. Zincite crystal, 2.5 cm, on matrix (12 cm) from the Buckwheat (Franklin) mine, originally in the collection of William “Billy” Ball, a New Jersey Zinc Company employee. It was acquired, along with the rest of Ball’s collection, by Massachusetts mineral dealers Raymond and Alvin Shortmann, who sold it to Detroit mineral collector Archibald N. Goddard, who in turn donated much of his collection to the Cranbrook Institute in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. John Zawiski photo courtesy of the Cranbrook Institute, where it is currently on display. Inset: a different view of the crystal.
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