Sphalerite on Siderite Anhydrite then be sure to pick

then be sure to pick this one up as it’s the only one like it that I have to offer

This specimen was mined in the late 1970’s / early 1980’s

From the collection of T

The piece features an excellent

save a rough spot on the bottom where it detached from the matrix

Sphalerite on Siderite Anhydrite then be sure to pickFrom my own personal collection, this cabinet sized display specimen is a quintessential Gilman sulfide carbonate association piece. Several remarkably sharp AND lustrous crystals of reddish black Sphalerite with notably SMOOTH faces hardly any striations at all on many faces are gently intermixed and sitting atop a crystallized plate of soft beige cream colored compressed rhombohedra or discs of Siderite. The piece was mined in 1978, and I actually