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Arsenopyrite with Quartz

Unknown Owner
Bright lustrous metallic silver blocky crystals of arsenopyrite measuring to 1.5 cm in size on a crystallized quartz matrix with muscovite. This is in terrific condition all around. There are no points of attachment.

Product details

Species
Quartz, ArsenopyriteAbout Quartz →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.4 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm
Added on01/22/2026
Locality
China, Hunan, Yaogangxian MineRegional guide →

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Unknown Owner$75.00
—Weinrich MineralsNot disclosed

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Quartz
Mineral guide
Learn about Quartz
a versatile mineral with clear, milky, and colored varieties; crystal forms, formation clues, and tips for identifying amethyst and citrine.
Quartz
Regional guide
Quartz from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is rarely collected as an isolated species in the way one might pursue Alpine gwindels or Arkansas plates. Its power is as the luminous architecture of a complex tungsten-tin hydrothermal system: glassy points spearing through metallic bournonite, milky to water-clear groups carrying purple fluorite cubes, quartz prisms dusted with pyrite or arsenopyrite, and sharp crystals acting as the pale stage on which scheelite, muscovite, dolomite, calcite, stibnite, stannite, rhodochrosite, and chlorite play out one of China’s great specimen assemblages.