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LOT 2400
Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
1 3/8 - 4 in. (1.1 kg total, 3.5-10.4 cm).
Comprising: fire opal from Lomo Deltoro Mine, Zimapan, Zimapan Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico; quartz from Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall; stilbite from the Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland; baryte from Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Milburn, Cumbria; quartz from Rostowrack China Clay pit, Cornwall; chalcopyrite and pyrite from Mount Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall; hedenbergite from Lunner, Akershus, Norway; dolomite from Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA; fluorite from Heights Mine, Westgate, Durham; quartz from Dolcoath Mine, camborne, Cornwall. [10, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
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