Sphalerite with Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Calcite
specimen number:
9302227
location:
Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico
description: Lustrous twinned crystals of sphalerite measuring to 1.3 cm in size on a rhodochrosite crystal matrix with minor quartz and calcite. Nice combination piece from this famous and closed locality. This is from the 1980s.
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