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LOT 2749
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1/2 - 2 in. (79 grams total, 13-50 mm).
Comprising: vivianite from Llallagua, Bolivia, collection number 589; colourless calcite from Derbyshire, England, collection number 10; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devon, England, collection number 46; wulfenite from Chihuahua, Mexico, collection number 208; actinolite from Norway, collection number 408; chalcopyrite on bornite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 33; proustite from Schlema Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany, collection number 606; aragonite from Somerset, England, collection number 166; chalcosine from England, collection number 50. [9, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Historic 'Copiapo, Chile' Atacamite on Chrysocolla Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Consisting of a mass of prismatic atacamite on a bed of botryoidal chrysocolla, collection number 491, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 114 grams, 81 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: ulexite from Kern County, California, USA, collection number 258; citrine, collection number 296; okenite from Poona, India, collection number 373; cassiterite from Cornwall, England, collection number 167; serpentine from Cornwall, England, collection number 164; cuprite from Tsumeb, Namibia, South West Africa, collection number 558; tremolite, collection number 465; chalcopyrite on quartz from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 304; quartz from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 322. 97 grams total, 19-44 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Nuevo Mercurio Fall Meteorite
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
A H5 chondrite showing some regmaglypts and primary fusion crust. 102 grams, 52 mm
Found near Nuevo Mercurio, Mexico, 1978.
The fall was strewn across an area about 10 km north of the village of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico, 250 km South West of Monterrey. A bright fireball, travelling North East to South West and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than 10 km in length. Only 5 kg of material has been found to date.
