Calcite with Sphalerite, Quartz, Pyrite
specimen number:
2312196
location:
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
description: Naica is a small town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, founded in 1794 following the discovery of silver and gold deposits in the surrounding mountains. While initial mining focused on precious metals, the area later gained immense economic importance for its massive lead, zinc, and silver replacement deposits. Geologically, Naica is world-famous for the Cave of the Crystals, located deep within the Naica Mine. These giant selenite crystals formed over hundreds of thousands of years from mineral-rich hydrothermal waters kept at high temperatures by a nearby ancient magma chamber.
Attractive combination piece for this classic Mexican locality with colorless sharp rhombohedral crystals of calcite to 3.0 cm in size on a lustrous black twinned sphalerite crystal matrix. Minor pyrite and quartz present. This is in very good condition.
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