Sulfur

Item Description

Here we have beautiful and fine quality near full-sized cabinet sized specimen of the famous, classic electric yellow colored Sulfur crystals from the El Desierto Mine in the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. This piece host a coverage of excellent, sharp, highly lustrous, well-formed, glowing yellow color, crystals of Sulfur on matrix. The largest crystal measures 3.2 cm, and shows elongated pyramidal growth. The piece has no major damage that I can find with the naked eye. You don't see a lot of piece of this size with such fine crystals and good aesthetics, so don't miss out. A really showy and excellent quality display specimen of what are some of the most well-known Sulfur crystals in the world. For reference, this species should be spelled S-U-L-F-U-R (not sulphur) as both the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry along with the British Royal Society of Chemistry adopted this spelling in the 1990s (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur#Spelling_and_etymology). Wikipedia also states that, "Sulfur is derived from the Latin word sulpur, which was Hellenized to sulphur in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek."