9iddbe ((ULEXITE on altered PYRRHOTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Kramer Borate Deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, 2.3 x 1.8 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, | |
These are from the collection of Milton Carahan purchased by Jim Minette. Boron has vuggy basalts filled with all kinds of interesting zeolite species. Many are small needing a loop or even a microscope to properly view. Small white spherical balls with small acicular protruding Ulexite crystals viewed with a loop. Small hexagonal Pyrrhotite altering with small brown crystalline crust or coating growing on the Pyrrhotites. |