Fairly new at Munich in 2014: one of the rare borates found in the occasionally prolific Kohnstein quarry. The crystals are extraordinarily sharp, lustrous, colorless, completely transparent and very large for the species, and they are on matrix. Though reluctant to make value judgments, we have to say that this specimen is probably among the best for the species from any locality.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ Nov/Dec 2014, number 120, page 45
Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen District, Thuringia/Thüringen Germany (01/2013)
Specimen size: 5 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 1.97” × 1.65” × 1.61”
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