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Sphalerite and Quartz from China

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Rocks, Fossils & Minerals Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,250.00 - 1,875.00 USD
Sphalerite and Quartz from China
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This specimen features more than ten gemmy, lustrous, sharp, reddish-orange sphalerite crystals which have grown on a matrix covered with colorless druzy quartz crystals and associated with white calcite and metallic-gray crystals of galena. The condition of the specimen is excellent and the overall aesthetics are superb. The Shuikoushan Mine is a skarn-type copper-lead-zinc deposit, occurring in the contact zone of the Shuikoushan granodiorite lopolith with Carboniferous and Permian carbonatites. Dimensions (cm): 3.4 H x 7 W x 7 D. Location: Shuikoushan Pb-Zn-Cu Deposit, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China Date: Location: China HWAC# 53054