Lustrous Orpiment with Calcite
Collection
John Betts - Fine Minerals
Description
Lustrous yellow-orange Orpiment crystals up to 50 mm long intergrown
colorless scalenohedral Calcite. The Orpiment crystals are columnar
form with complex edges of minute parallel crystal faces that give them
an opaque yellow appearance on their edges.
Locality
Shimen Mine, Hunan, China
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