Spinel
at-auction$ 600
- Locality
- Big Maria mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
- Minerals
- Spinel
- Dimensions
- 13 x 10 x 8 cm
- Size class
- Cabinet
- SID
- C557
Large 3cm black Spinel crystal on matrix with other smaller Spinel crystals. This is an old specimen from a collection from the 1960s and 70s that contained a number of excellent and uncommon California specimens. It occurs with Chlorite and appears to have been partially etched from carbonate rock. It rates as a significant California Spinel. Undamaged.