A rare, old time example of monazite from Norway!!! This specimen consists of a sharp single crystal of monazite!!! The
crystal has razor-sharp features and is in magnificent condition all around!!! This specimen is from the
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum and retains an old label with L.L. Hubbard Collection (1849-1933) notation!!!
Courtesy of the Mineralogical Record:
"Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933):
Hubbard was a life-long mineral collector, and he also took time off to study mineralogy at the Universities of
Heidelberg and Bonn beginning in 1883. After receiving his PhD in Bonn in 1886 he joined the staff of the Michigan
Geological Survey and the Michigan College of Mines in 1890. In 1893 he left to become Michigan State Geologist, a
post he held until 1899, when he resigned to head geological exploration activities for the Copper Range Company. He
discovered the southern extension of the Baltic lode, the last big native copper deposit to be found in the district;
it became the Champion mine, where Hubbard later became general manager. He served as a member of the Board of Control
of the Michigan College of Mines, and as a Regent of the University of Michigan, from 1910 until his death in Eagle
Harbor, Michigan on August 3, 1933.
Despite being partially color-blind, Hubbard built an immense, first-class personal mineral collection, which he donated to the Michigan College of Mines (today Michigan Technological University). It consisted of high-quality specimens from the Michigan Copper Country and Europe. A suite of his calcite crystals was described and figured by Charles Palache in his classic 1898 paper on Lake Superior Region calcites."
Classic old time material!!!
The pics hardly do it justice!!! Must be seen in person to be fully appreciated!!!
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