Calcite, Sphalerite, from the Cumberland Mine (Tennessee). Xcellent UV bermejillo

Calcite, Sphalerite, from the Cumberland Mine (Tennessee). Xcellent UV bermejilloAsthetically pleasing medium cabinet specimen from the Cumberland Mine in Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, located just a few miles north of the world famous Elmwood Mine. The Cumberland Mine is still an active zinc mine and field collecting is not allowed. This is an old collection piece, specifically noted to be Drift 16 5 3, which was a horizontal tunnel cut into the rock to access a veinand known for producing spectacular, UV reactive specimens.

while this is safe to gave in your collection- because realgar is an aresenic sulphide

Measures approximatly 1

Small cabinet specimen of deep blue Azurite and bright green Malachite from the Liufengshan Mine

Pendant measures 1

This small but striking cabinet specimen sits nicely on its matrix with no stand required

well-formed sulfur (sulphur) crystals on matrix from a remote

5”x 3“

When the piece is lit

UVs an icey blue-white

The main crystal point is cleanly terminated with numerous smaller points radiating from the base

The fluorite has hints of yellow

Self-standing on the matrix