Corundum var. Sapphire: Potanino, South Ural Mountains, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Russia
$2,500.00
Corundum var. Sapphire: Potanino, South Ural Mountains, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Russia
$2,500.00
1 in stock
Description
Species: Corundum var. Sapphire, Anorthite
Locality: Potanino, South Ural Mountains, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Russia
Size: 10 x 6 x 5 cm.
A well-formed bright blue 5 cm. doubly-terminated sapphire crystal is set in sn0w-white feldspar matrix is this rare old classic from Potanino, South Ural Mountains, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Russia. A superb sapphire specimen for this uncommon Russian locality, traded out of the Fersman Museum in Moscow in the 1990’s, and retaining a Fersman Museum collection label. Comes with a custom milled acrylic display base. Mark Cross photo. Classic!
