Description
Here we see a fine cluster with intense yolk-yellow, well formed and sharp crystals of Orpiment from the well known Jiepaiyu Mine (Shimen Mine) at Shimen As-(Au) Deposit of China. The Orpiments from Peru and China have been overshadowed for some time by the beautiful specimens from Nevada that came some years ago. But occasionally, you get a killer mini like this that just blows you away and can keep up with even the Nevada ones. This is just an amazing Chinese Orpiment. The colour is magnificent, as is the candy-like luster. But, what is perhaps most striking is the elegant lenght of these crystals - to 4,1 centimeters! Further, there are only a couple of mildly contacted crystals at the bottom, where so often you have a lot of bruising on these, but terminations are almost pristine. Just SUPERB