FEATURED ITEM $30 Min Bid - 1408 BIXBYITE, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 6.5 x 5 x 5 cm | |
Here is a 1.2 cm cubic Bixbyite 7 to 10 years ago, this was the largest Bixbyite I had ever seen. It still is for this cubic with octahedral modified corners form. 5 years ago larger greatly modified Bixbyites have been found and they are pricey. This one has some dings on the top face. Also the rhyolite matrix block is sawn on 4 sides. In additional there is a saw mark which looks like the original idea was to saw out the Bixbyite from matrix. These things greatly hurt the value. It would have been priced 15 times the opening minimum bid. It is still a very large crystal of the cubic Bixbyite |