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Sphalerite with Chalcopyrite

specimen number:
2013298

location:
Swalley Mine, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, USA

description:
An excellent old classic specimen with lustrous black crystals of sphalerite set up on a brecciated chert matrix, this matrix coated with microscopic sparkling colorless crystals of quartz. There are golden epitaxial chalcopyrite crystals upon the sphalerite. A separate generation of sphalerite is present, these smaller crystals but gemmy and red. In super condition. This would have been collected in the 1960s.

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Size: 10.0 x 6.0 x 4.0 cm (cabinet)

Collection: Harris Precht

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