Chalcopyrite (classic New Mexico locale)

Item Description

The famous Ground Hog Mine lies just east of Silver City, New Mexico and southwest of the famous Chino Copper Pit. This locality is famous for its excellent Chalcopyrite specimens, which are some of the best from any US locality. This piece is a nearly a large cabinet sized display specimen featuring many sharp, well-formed, tetragonal scalenohedral crystals of brassy metallic Chalcopyrite measuring up to 2.0 cm, sitting on slight grey colored, prismatic, translucent thin crystals of Quartz on matrix. A bit of accenting white Calcite and black Sphalerite make for a nice touch. The piece is in very good condition, as most of the Chalcopyrites are undamaged and look great up close and when the piece is on display in a cabinet. These were never really available in any great quantity, but in today's market they are notably scarce. So if you're a fan of sulfides or minerals from New Mexico, or you just like big showy display specimens, this is something that you're not likely to see for sale in most places, let along for a bargain starting bid in auction. This piece was priced at $2,000 in our inventory.