| 8hhmris ((BARAHONAITE-Al)), $20 MINIMUM BID, 80 foot Adit, Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah, 5 x 4 x 2 cm, Miniature | |
_small.jpg) | Here is a really nice specimen of this rare species. Gold Hill was sealed by the state of Utah right before this became a new mineral species is about 2008. Collecting is open on the vast area of the dumps but the underground was sealed with iron rebar that allowed the bats to access to the mines habitat. Although the species as an unknown was known from many years the work on the new unknown species was delayed long enough that the species was finally found in spain at the locality of the previous Barahonaite-Fe. They were alot more efficient and got the type locality as the first to complete the scientific description of the species. Gold Hill has the best specimens by far. Just prior to Gold Hill closing several flats of specimens were collected which I was able to purchase otherwise very few if any would have been available for collections. |
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