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4.35" Quartz and Pyrite Crystal Cluster - Crystals on Crystals!
This is a wild specimen! This is one big double-sided cluster of needle-like quartz crystals with pyrite and sphalerite. Quartz crystals are all over the place, stacking on top of each other in areas. The reverse side of this specimen is coated in a fuzzy-looking mass of aragonite. It was collected from the Huanzala Mine in Peru. The entire specimen measures 4.35" wide and comes with an acrylic display stand.
The Huanzala mine in the Bolognesi Province of Áncash, Peru is an excellent example of a mine with exceptional quality, variety, and availability. Traditionally a lead-zinc mine, Huanzala holds the record for the most mineral tonnage extracted by a single mine. This is quite the feat and it's easy to see why minerals from this locality are so aggressively mined and collected.
This mine has a multitude of awesome minerals from sharply terminated quartz to sparkly pyrite, bubbly aragonite and dense galena. Other common minerals are realgar, orpiment, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, manganoan calcite, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, cassiterite, barite, fluorite and fluorapatite, among other less prevalent minerals. Mineral associations from this mine often contain three to four minerals at once, growing all over one another in phenomenal associations.
This mine has a multitude of awesome minerals from sharply terminated quartz to sparkly pyrite, bubbly aragonite and dense galena. Other common minerals are realgar, orpiment, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, manganoan calcite, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, cassiterite, barite, fluorite and fluorapatite, among other less prevalent minerals. Mineral associations from this mine often contain three to four minerals at once, growing all over one another in phenomenal associations.
SPECIES
Quartz, Sphalerite, Aragonite & Pyrite
LOCATION
Huanzala Mine, Bolognesi, Peru
SIZE
4.35 x 3.2"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#271509
