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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 74788 |
| Mineral: | Orpiment with Calcite |
| Locality: | Shimen Mine, Hunan, China |
| Description: | Elongated transparent brownish-orange orpiment crystals to 8 mm intermixed with translucent white scalenohedral calcite crystals to 11 mm. The orpiment crystals have lustrous, striated prism faces and have yellow mica-like terminations on some crystals. Collected ca. 1993 |
| Overall Size: | 5.5x3x2.8 cm |
| Crystals: | 2-11 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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