Mineral: Orpiment
Locality: Twin Creeks Mine, cut 62, Potosi District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Dimensions: 3.0 x 4.5 cm

Description: Lustrous chisel-shaped, yellow-orange orpiment crystals to 1.2 cm with striated faces. Collected in 1999.

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