Orpiment
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
6 x 6 x 4 cm. The finds of orpiment in Nevada some years back (around 2000), spearheaded by a professional mining company that had access for specimen collecting after a blast and on weekends, redefined how good orpiment specimens could be - particularly US opriments. The crystals are big, lustrous, transparent, and came in a beautiful range of ...
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