Vanadinite, Baryte, Hollandite

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Beautifully gemmy and lustrous, cherry-red, tabular vanadinite prisms to 6 mm are richly sprinkled on the cabinet matrix of solid baryte. The coating of black hollandite on the baryte blades is a stark contrast to the red vanadinites and snow-white baryte. These vanadinite have the color and gemminess of fine spinel crystals, but are not. This showy and excellent large piece is from the much less well-known El Kwal deposit near Mibladen. Ex. Daniel Trinchillo Sr. Collection. This piece probably dates to the 1970s or 1980s.