Vanadinite, Calcite

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A dramatic, large cabinet specimen from the classic, but now hard to obtain, source of San Carlos Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. Strongly hoppered, butterscotch-colored vanadinite prisms to 3.8 cm richly cover the banded matrix and are strikingly overgrown with cream-colored calcite. The isolated clusters have a distinctive flowstone-look in one view. This is a rare, large combination specimen in this quality and crystal form. These came out in the 1960s and 1970s, with none since. Ex. Evan Jones Mexico Collection.