<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albite" class="extiw" title="en:Albite">Albite</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosnarite" class="extiw" title="en:Kosnarite">Kosnarite</a>
<dl><dd><dl><dd>Locality: Jenipapo district, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinga" class="extiw" title="en:Itinga">Itinga</a>, Jequitinhonha valley, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Gerais" class="extiw" title="en:Minas Gerais">Minas Gerais</a>, Southeast Region, Brazil (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mindat.org/loc-23061.html">Locality at mindat.org</a>)</dd>
<dd>Size: miniature, 5 x 5 x 3.7 cm
<dl><dt>Kosnarite on Albite</dt></dl></dd>
<dd>Kosnarite is a recently identified new phosphate species named after Richard Kosnar (now deceased). This piece has sharp, lustrous crystals to 3 mm perched nicely on albite matrix, make this a very good piece for the find (from about 2003). I recall that Luiz Menezes had the best of these at Tucson that year and I saw Marty walking out of the room with this specimen i nhis hand, as I was walking into that hotel show. It wasn't the most expensive or the largest, but I recall thinking this was probably the most aesthetic of the lot, given crystal quality and the isolation on contrasting albite. The appraisal price in the collection was $950, but I have priced it closer to the original number back then, to be fair.</dd></dl></dd></dl>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56247090" class="extiw" title="d:Q56247090"><span title="mineral collector and dealer">Robert M. Lavinsky</span></a>
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