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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 36931 |
| Mineral: | Orpiment |
| Locality: | Shimen Mine, Hunan, China |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-orange orpiment crystals, with a few small colorless calcite crystals, mounted on a base. The orpiment crystals grew together in a compact mass and have lustrous chisel-shaped terminations and chatoyant yellow prism faces on the sides. |
| Overall Size: | 6x6x3.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 2-5 cm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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