Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Comancheite

Views:
Watches:
BCK693583

Comancheite

David Burgess Collection
Type Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mariposa Mine, Terlingua District, Brewster County, Texas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 5.4 × 4.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large and extremely rich sample of comancheite from the David Burgess collection. The calcite matrix hosts a quite large area of of bundles of red crystals of comancheite with possibly some small kleinite crystals. Only known locality for this mercury mineral with very exotic chemistry. Comes with Mineralogical Research Company label from 1988 with a $375 price tag.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps