$850.00 €802 £690.00 approx. This specimen is priced in US dollars, all other prices are approximate.
Hundreds of sub-millimetre Pucherite crystals cover the top surface of a heavy grey matrix. This specimen is from its type locality at Pucher Shaft within the Wolfgang Maaßen mines of the Schneeberg District in Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Pucherite is a rare bismuth vanadate forming metallic, ruby red equant crystals of between about 0.1 and 0.2 mm (yes, millimetres); they are very small, yet plentiful! In less intense light the crystals appear a more reddish clove brown. The matrix must have a high metal content due to the specimen’s excessive weight indicating a high density.