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English: Limonite
Locality: Nandan County, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: 8 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm.
We had some of these amazing limonite specimens in auctions awhile back, and they were fiercely bid on. We spent 4 months after that trying to track down the Chinese guy who had them, and arranged to meet the Chinese guy who had them 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 good ones - and we were later able to pick up a handful more. But, we have not seen any since. The luster of these is just unreal, particularly considering that chemically, limonite is basically the same as rust! The surface actually looks hardly natural; it is so shiny and weirdly bumpy - unlike any other mineral I have personally seen.
Deutsch: Limonit
Fundort: Nandan County, Präfektur Hechi, Guangxi, China (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 8 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm.
Date before March 2010
date QS:P, 2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326, 2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-137764.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
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Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus Edit this at Wikidata
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