Vanadinite
Unknown Owner
A particularly fine specimen of classic Moroccan Vanadinite from the Mibladen mining area. Excellent bright pigeon blood-red hexagonal crystals of Vanadinite measuring to 1.2 cm are stacked one upon another all over the display area of a cockscomb white Baryte coated by a thin veneer of grey-black manganese-iron oxide. The translucency of the Vanadinite crystals allows internal shades of golden peach and barley sugar orange to twinkle in transmitted light, so making this a most showy specimen. A later deposition of micro-crystals of colourless to milky-white Calcite has formed on some Vanadinite crystals. A strikingly fine large miniature Vanadinite from Mibladen.
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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions4.8 x 6.2 x 4.0 cm
Added on10/24/2024
Known provenance
| Date | Collector | Acquisition price |
|---|---|---|
| — | Unknown Owner | $1,000.00 |
| — | Crystal Classics | Not disclosed |
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vivid red-to-orange hexagonal barrels with bright luster; secondary lead mineral from oxidized zones, famed in Mibladen, Morocco, prized for color.
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