Baddeleyite (rare fine twinned crystal) Sweet Home The famous Camp Bird Mine

The famous Camp Bird Mine

This is an aesthetic specimen from this classic Bolivian locality

Excellent for the locality

they are certainly some of the best Scorzalites to hit the market in a very long time

Specimen # BULG4113

Baddeleyite (rare fine twinned crystal) Sweet Home The famous Camp Bird MineBaddeleyite is a fairly rare zirconium oxide species that dates back to 1892 when it was named after the British geologist, Joseph Baddeley. While working as the superintendent of a railroad project in Rakwana, Sri Lanka in the 1890s, Baddeley found an unusual mineral and sent samples back to London for analysis. According to mindat. org, "This led to the discovery of Geikielite. Baddeley then sent more samples of that mineral, but one of them was