Hutchinsonite, Orpiment
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru
Hutchinsonite is a rare thallium species. This is the best Hutchinsonite I have ever seen for sale, for the sharp 3-dimensional quality of the crystals and their size. Normally, the mineral occurs as sharp acicular crystals. Seldom do they ever show a true termination. Here, though, you can see even by eye the sharp, wide, chisel-tipped ...
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