AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Romania > Realgar on Pyrite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 62276 |
Mineral: | Realgar on Pyrite |
Locality: | Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbanya), Maramures, Romania |
Description: | Lustrous transparent blood-red prismatic realgar crystals to 18 mm over yellow-metallic pyrite crystals that are coated on one face with microcrystals of an unidentified gray-black mineral, possibly sphalerite. |
Overall Size: | 8x5.5x2 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 18 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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