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Sphalerite on Quartz
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CC15202
A long narrow rib of vein Quartz is overgrown with acicular Quartz crystals to about 5 mm, over which large, showy rosettes of black lustrous Sphalerite to around 3 cm diameter are richly strewn. A spectacular display specimen with no damage, from the Dal'negorsk in the Kavalerovo mining district of Primorskiy Kray, Russia.