KB: CALIF. FL. HARDYSTONITE, WILLEMITE & CALCITE...VERY RARE OCCURRENCE NEWLY ID

Description

RARELY SEEN MATERIAL FROM THE HOLCOMB VALLEY AREA, LET ALONE CALIFORNIA IN GENERAL!  FIRST PUBLISHED DISCOVERY OF HARDYSTONITE OUTSIDE OF FRANKLIN!!!!!!!!  Read up in the FOMS Picking Table.
RARE ONE-OF-A-KIND HARDYSTONITE, WILLEMITE & CALCITE IN HETAEROLITE/FRANKLINITE MATRIX!
CHECK THIS AND MANY OTHER SPECIMENS OF BRIGHT FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM CALIFORNIA.  THIS IS AN EXTREMELY RICH PIECE AND WHILE THE PHOTOGRAPHY IS SUB-PAR, THE SPECIMEN IS TOP CLASS!  JUST LIKE FRANKLIN CALCITE/WILLEMITE, ONLY IT IS FROM CALIFORNIA.  SORRY BUT THE HARDYSTONITE DOES NOT OCCUR LIKE THE BRILLANT FRANKLIN EXAMPLES, BUT HERE IN CALIFORNIA WE'LL TAKE THE FACT IT JUST OCCURS!  THIS IS A RARE DEPOSIT WHICH IS VERY MUCH SIMILAR IN MINERALOGY WITH FRANKLIN & LANGBAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Read the Spring Picking Table from the FOMS and read about its discovery!
FANTASTIC FLUORESCENT SPECIMEN!!!
This specimen is an
excellent
example of Hardystonite (fl. violet/blue SW), Willemite (fl. green SW) and Calcite (fl. red SW) with black non-fluorescent iron ore (hetaerolite/franklinite) from the Desert View Mine, Holcomb Valley, San Bernardino County, California, USA.  GOOD example of these fluorescent species from this locale!  The Hardystonite on this specimen appears to be surficial and disseminated except for one area where a sliver is in the iron ore, as seen in photos 4, 5, 8, 9 & 10, not the solid section as analyzed in the Warren Museum reference specimen but nice all the less.  But its rare and NEW!!!  There is probably more than what I have identified but I will conservatively state what I can see with a 13W field lamp.  Displays wonderfully.
The size of the specimen is 7" (17.5 cm) x 4" (10 cm) x 2" (5 cm).
Great to add to a competitive display.
This specimen shows a vast suite of species typically found with this new occurrence, also not mentioned above is the presence of aragonite (fl. blue/gray SW and phosphorescent).  This discovery will have persons scouring back over their collections to identify similar hardystonite, and I have seen that it primarily will occur (albeit rarely) at a zone between the iron ore and the willemite/calcite interface.  Note that aragonite coatings that fluoresce a steel blue color also occurs in this suite of minerals, and the best way to distinguish between the aragonite and hardystonite that I have found is that hardystonite does not phosphoresce, the aragonite always will.  Believe me when I say I have analyzed every mm of this and other pieces I thought were just iron ore with willemite/calcite occurrences to find more in my limited stock.  Check this and my many other offerings now and in the days to come.  I have taken pictures from all sides.  The fluorescent picture(s) are under SW UV light, I am using a Superbright SW lamp (13W).  I apologize for any quality issues with my photographs, I am not a photographer, but a field collector at heart.  The specimens I sell are much better in person, check out my feedbacks!  I always welcome direct inquiries, be sure to join the FOMS (Franklin Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society) to view the most recent Picking Table publication, heck join that prestigious society devoted to the minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill deposits because it's a great group to be associated with.
Do not miss out in adding one of these high quality examples of California fluorescence/mineralogy.
I am an active member of the Fluorescent Mineral Society, current Board Member, and have been a member for over 39+ years.  Although I don't feel that aged.  I know what fellow fluorescent hobbiests are looking for, and will only offer quality here.  I do guarantee my offerings, and as you see in my feedbacks, many buyers tell me how the specimens are better in person.
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