Quartz with chalcopyrite ex. Whitmore Coll.

Item Description

Quartz from the Alimon Mine is a classic and highly desirable Peruvian classic. This impressive, CABINET, plate is studded with two generations of tapered quartz crystal sprays, presenting a distinctive porcupine quill-like appearance. The first generation of larger crystals, dominated by the 5.0 cm obelisk, have a satiny luster and finish, while the second generation crystals are very glassy and water-clear. Poking through the quartz sprays are a few, melted-look galena cubes, iridescent chalcopyrite and small, brass-yellow pyrites. The matrix is a mixture of quartz and sufides. This is an outstanding, complete all-around and essentially pristine, densely crystalized quartz with only very minimal periphery wear. Very high-grade material from the peak of Alimon Mine specimen production in the 1980s. Ex Robert Whitmore Collection. Valued at $500. MUCH, MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!