Sulfur

Item Description

Aside from Italy, some of the most well known Sulfur crystals in the world come from the Bolivian desert. This attractive skeletal crystal has excellent, elongated prismatic form, with very sharp faces and luster, but it's that's electric yellow color that draws the eye. You don't see a lot of well-formed Sulfur crystals this size from most localities, but this piece is also GEMMY to boot! These are certainly some of the largest Sulfur crystals extant, and they have such a unique form that you don't often see in Sulfur from any locality. This piece shows a small amount of "hoppered" or skeletal growth, which is common for the material from Bolivia. 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."