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Smithsonite

$500.00

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This wonderful small cabinet specimen from the famous 79 mine at Chilito, Hayden, in the Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila Co. not only displays the distinctive mint-green Smithsonite for which this mine is so well-known, but presents it in combination with several of the other secondary zinc species - Rosasite and Hemimorphite. The Smithsonite is not only slightly botryoidal in form, but is finely crystallized, producing a somewhat silky appearance to its surfaces. Hemimorphite occurs as excellent colourless bladed microcrystals, some in fan-like sprays scattered around the edges of the piece and dotted with tiny blue-green spherules of Rosasite. It comes from the collection of Paul Matt and is nicely provenanced to the 470 Level.