Orpiment
specimen number:
1152026
location:
Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA
description:
Lustrous slightly translucent crystals of orpiment measuring to just under 1.0 cm in size across the top of this matrix. Micro-chipping is present as typical of these, this particular specimen is in much better condition than most for the species from this locality. This would have been collected in the late 1990s.
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