Orpiment
specimen number:
1602601
location:
Cut 62, Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA
description:
Good miniature for this locality with lustrous slightly translucent crystals of orpiment measuring to 1.5 cm in size little attached matrix. Crystallized all around and in good condition for the species. This would have been collected in the late 1990s.
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