Smaltite on native Silver

Item Description

Smaltite is the arsenic-deficient variety of skutterudite and is quite uncommon worldwide and is rare in display-quality specimens. This is a very rich, sculptural and aesthetic specimen of bubbly/botryoidal, very sparkly, silvery-bright, smaltite microcrystals on a thick vein of native silver! Rich ore here. This is exceptional quality material from the renowned Cobalt-Gowganda area of Ontario. 49 grams.