Stalactitic Pyrite "worm" w/ Calcite (Consie Prince & Stoudt Coll.)

Item Description

One of the niftiest miniature Mexican pyrite specimens you can imagine! A curved stalactitic growth of sharp, stacked, bronzy, pyrite crystals is partially cloaked in glassy, colorless, calcite scalenohedrons. Both ends are contacted and you can see the hollow tube where the precipitating fluid flowed! A beautiful, aesthetic and rare combination specimen from the Consie Prince and Dave Stoudt Collections. Possibly unique in the world, this is a famous and well known find from the early 1980s. Valued $500