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Description |
Unlike most Phosgenites from this important old lead mining district, this one is both beautifully arranged, and sparkly. Thick, tabular, glassy and gemmy, light champagne-colored Phosgenite crystals, to 5 cm across, are sculpturally emplaced on a just bit of matrix. They shoot off it like wings. It is nearly pristine, though not quite 100% so; acceptable for a mineral that is probably 100 years old and more. The Monteponi Mine has arguably produced the finest Phosgenite crystals ever found, and this is a more-than-representative specimen that actually id displayable and aesthetic. Ex. Giancarlo Fioravanti collection, and he obtained it in 1970 from older collections in Italy. |
