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LOT 2562
Boxed Realgar Orpiment Mineral Specimen Group [12]
1/2 - 1 in. (146 grams total, 14-26 mm).
Yellow specimens with some red areas, each set in foam in a labelled cardboard specimen tray. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Getchel, Nevada, USA.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Knightia Fossil Fish in Matrix Group
Eocene Period, circa 58-36 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising three rounded matrices with Knightia alta. 211 grams total, 78-84 mm
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), USA. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time. -
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Green Mariposite Mineral Specimen Group [50]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising fifty specimens with green chromium-rich mica with white dolomitic marble. 1.15 kg total, 24-91 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
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Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Half Collection [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising three rounded geode halves with the internal cavity filled with a blanket of light purple and grey crystals, one with a single 'unicorn horn'-shaped quartz crystal, one with a pyramidal formation of brown calcite, and one with two large clear quartz crystals. 995 grams total, 81-94 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
