Sulfur on Calcite (drill core) (RARE locality specimen)

Item Description

An notably hard to find piece from the Boling Salt Dome locality southwest of Houston, Texas (specifically NNE of the town of Newgulf). If you're interested, I would encourage you to read the statistics about the locality on mindat.org ( https://www.mindat.org/loc-30972.html ). My personal favorite fact is the sheer size of dome itself, which was calculated at 31.3 cubic miles. We've only seen a handful of these specimens over the years, and they are almost always sections of a rotary drill core used to essentially gauge the magnitude or volume of a commodity in a certain section of the deposit. The piece features an open exposed vug of cream colored Calcite crystals which a group of bright lemon yellow Sulfur crystal measuring 1.7 cm across. The Sulfur group appears to be undamaged and shows good inner translucency. when backlit. Minerals from Texas are not terribly common to find on the market, but this piece is different than most you'll see due to the interesting nature of its extraction and the shape of the piece from the drill core. It's important to note that actual crystallized sulfur from this locality is extremely hard to find because they actually dissolved the sulfur with superheated water and compressed air and collected it from deep wells underground, so nearly all the crystals were "melted" away. A must have specimen for any fan of worldwide Sulfur specimens or minerals of Texas.