Specimen #746

Name: Iridescent Limonite

Type: Mineral

Locality: Nandan, China

Favorite? N

Fluorescent? N

Size: 9.9 x 8.2 x 6.2 cm

Weight: 288

Acquired: 2008-07-10

Source: Arkenstone Auction

Label: Y

Comment: We had some of these amazing and UNIQUE limonite specimens in auctions about two years ago. They were fiercely bid on, but that was all we had. We spent 4 months after that trying to track down the Chinese guy who had them, and by the time the Tucson Show last year rolled around, we had found him and arranged to meet him in Tucson. There, he had about 65 specimens - the great majority of which were ugly, but about 6 or 7 of which had the amazing iridescence you see here. We had to buy the entire lot of 65 to get the 6 or good ones - which was hard to bite off, but we did it. This amazing one came back to us later in a trade. It looks like a large mass of Christmas bulbs! Purple, yellow, green, gold - every color you could imagine!

Minerals: Limonite

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Iridescent Limonite, Nandan, China - 9.9 x 8.2 x 6.2 mm

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Iridescent Limonite, Nandan, China - 9.9 x 8.2 x 6.2 mm

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Iridescent Limonite, Nandan, China - 9.9 x 8.2 x 6.2 mm

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Iridescent Limonite, Nandan, China,

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Iridescent Limonite, Nandan, China,