Mineral: Hessite on Quartz
Locality: Botes (Botești), Zlatna, Alba, Transylvania, Romania
Dimensions: 3,0 x 3,0 x 4,5 cm

Description: Main crystal size : 1,1 cm Tuft of black-gray elongated and flattened crystals developed around a column of microcrystalline quartz reminiscent of a fir. On some hessite crystals one can see gold grains probably resulting from the reduction of the telluride. MIM number 1623 Photographer : Augustin de Valence (Ainu)

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