Orpiment
Cut 20, Mega Pit, Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
A very fine miniature of this intensly orange mineral, on a contrasting black matrix of silicified Ordovician rock. The find occurred several years ago, and with an agreement between Collector's Edge and the Newmont Mining Corporation, a significant number of specimens have been mined in various qualities and pricepoints, enabling collectors of ...
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