Orpiment with Calcite
specimen number:
4951259
location:
Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Changde, Hunan, China
description:
An attractive combination piece with lustrous orange prismatic crystals of orpiment in a cluster with glassy partly transparent colorless calcite crystals to 5.0 cm in length. Cleaving is present on one of the calcite crystal terminations as shown in the video, this still in good condition.
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