Ludlockite with Tennantite and Quartz - image 1

Ludlockite with Tennantite and Quartz

$2,500.00

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Ludlockite is one of the all-time classic rarities from Tsumeb mine having been discovered there during the 1960s and named after the two mineral dealers - Frederick Ludlow Smith III and Charles Locke Key - who provided the material for study. Often seen as bundles of loose, off-matrix, burnt-orange coloured fibres, this miniature specimen is a superb, and rare example, of Ludlockite on matrix. This matrix is massive dark grey metallic Tennantite and the Ludlockite forms radiating sprays (to 5 mm across) of silky acicular crystals. The largest area of Ludlockite reaches 8 mm across.