Mineral: Pyrargyrite
Locality: Mina Chispas, Arizpe, Municipio de Arizpe, Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
Dimensions: 15,0 x 15,5 x 10,0 cm
Description: Main crystal size: 2,9 cm
Large, brilliant, translucent crystals in a beautiful red, with flat summits, on a thin matrix covered with needles of quartz, sulfides and small crystals of barytine
MIM number 688
Photographer: Augustin de Valence (Aïnu)
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