| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from China > Orpiment and Calcite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 39123 |
| Mineral: | Orpiment and Calcite |
| Locality: | Shimen Mine, Hunan, China |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-orange orpiment crystals up to 50 mm long intergrown colorless scalenohedral calcite. The orpiment crystals are columnar form with complex edges of minute parallel crystal faces that give them an opaque yellow appearance (edges only). |
| Overall Size: | 6x6x5 cm |
| Crystals: | 5-50 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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