Native Bismuth (1930) Vajdak Coll.

Item Description

An impressive solid nugget of euhedral, lamellar to massive native bismuth from the Czech side of the famed Erzgebirge. Some of the faces of the lustrous, bronze-colored, metal show the flattened crystals. There even appears to be a partial, large hexagonal crystal in the top of the piece. 127 grams of hefty mass. Very rich, rare and older ore from this noted locale. Ex Josef Vajdak Collection, a noted Czech specialist. The mineral Vajdakite is named in his honor. collected in 1930, according to the labels. As he is an expert on the locale, I trust his label like few others...but I have never seen such a solid bismuth specimen from here before, and it compares favorably to old Bolivian nuggets which might be valued $500-ish for one like this