Description: Quartz Shangbao Mine, Leiyang Co., Hunan Prov., China 5.5 x 6.5 cm. A divergent group of silky-lustered quartz crystals with a bluish-gray coloration due to microscopic inclusions of an unknown mineral. Prismatic silver bismuthinite crystals are present as well as minor purple fluorite and pyrite.

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