mdes QUARTZ on SPHALERITE with PYRITE, $25 OPENING BID, Animon Mine, Huaron Mining District, San Jose de Huayllay District, Cerro de Pasco, Alcides Carrion Province, Pasco Department, Peru, 11 x 8 x 6 cm, Large Cabinet | |
Here is a super specimen with stout terminated Quartz crystals on a matrix of crystallized Sphalerite. Quartz is undamaged other than one or two stray broken crystals. The Quartz is peppered with small Pyrite crystals on the surface of the Quartz crystals. On many specimens these Pyrites are included in the Quartz, but on this specimen the Pyrite crystals are attached to the outside of the Quartz crystals. |