PYRB1 Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Galena, Calcite

Nikolayevskiy Mine, Dal'Negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia.

7.5x 5.7x 5.8 cm

$365

A very lustrous, undamaged, monster crystal of pyrrhotite, measuring 3.5cm across the top and on a matrix of hundreds of small quartz crystals.  There are also a couple galena crystals to 1.7 cm across, which show the tabular form typical of Dal'Negorsk galenas. There are a few other pyrrhotites elsewhere on the specimen, to about 1.3 cm,

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