Kosnarite

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Kosnarite is potassium-zirconium phosphate and was named after our good friend Brian's father, Richard Kosnar, in 1994. The type locality for this material is Mt. Mica, Maine, and the crystals at that find barely approached 1 mm in diameter. A few years ago, Luiz Menezes made a discovery of what are the finest crystallized Kosnarite specimens in existence and this piece has crystals up to an amazing 3 mm! This is a specimen from that find featuring sharp, lustrous, yellowish colored, pseudo-cubic (trigonal) crystals on white Albite matrix. If you look closely, you'll see a small truncated face on each "cube" of Kosnarite on this specimen, which is actually a pinacoid or a "c" face as these crystals are trigonal and not isometric as they might appear. The quality on this specimen is as good as Kosnarite gets from any locality in the world. Ex. Alvaro Lucio collection and certainly from the initial and major discovery in the early 1990s. A rich specimen!