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English: Pyromorphite
Locality: Daoping Mine (Tangping Mine), Gongcheng City, Gongcheng County, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: cabinet, 16 x 12 x 6.5 cm
Pyromorphite
This piece is remarkably aesthetic and pristine, as well as huge at 16 x 12 x 6.5 cm. It is shaped like a saddle, somewhat humped in the middle, and difficult to show off to such depth in the photo. Thus, if you view if from one end of the valley, it foreshortens in viewing but gives amazing depth and dimensionality to the piece as shown. If you view it horizontally, it is good too, of course, and presents a much larger surface area. The color on this one is really fascinating and a bit unusual: it has the richest green color at the base of the larger crystals, and then 2 further layers of pyromorphite growth in which the color grades to a more pastel green hue at the tips. Some of the tips appear to have a slight green frosting on them, which really accentuates their form and contrast nicely. The effect is oriented such that it is more apparent on the long horizontal, then when displayed vertically. It is amazing to me, the size of it and this perfection as well. And, I like the geometry of the piece. The color is not typical, as it is really 3 colors in gradient. This is a large cabinet specimen in totally pristine condition that I exchanged out of Steve Smale in an infamous trade, where I traded the Ikons bournonite for duplicates or too-large specimens from his China suite (which was considered by many to be the best assembled in the 1990s during China's initial outflow). Over the early years of Chinese mineral output, Steve was teaching in Hong Kong and intercepted a good bit of material, cherry-picking and stashing many duplicates. This was, in the end, too big to fit with most of the specimens he ended up keeping, but is no slouch in quality and was kept by him for a decade.
Deutsch: Pyromorphit
Fundort: Daoping Mine (Tangping Mine), Gongcheng City, Gongcheng County, Präfektur Guilin, Guangxi, China (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 16 x 12 x 6.5 cm
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source Image: http://www.irocks.com/db_pics/new09mix/pyro-smale3.jpg, Description: http://www.mindat.org/photo-271360.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus
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creator QS:P170,Q56247090
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