Mineral: Sphalerite on Dolomite
Locality: Áliva Mine (Las Mánforas Mine), Áliva mining area, Camaleño, Comarca Liébana, Cantabria, Spain
Dimensions: 4 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm

Description: A delightful miniature of Sphalerite with extraordinarily well-defined and clean polycrystalline growths, twinned, translucent, and displaying an intense, deep, and uniform honey color. It rests on a group of tabular Dolomite crystals of snow-white color, with small remnants of limestone matrix, characteristic of the Áliva mining area.

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