Sphalerite, Galena, Quartz

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These superb gemmy, red sphalerites came out a few years ago and promptly vaporized from the market. This piece is aesthetic, and features isolated, translucent, sphalerites to 3.5 cm perched on contrasting matrix. It is 3-dimensional and good all around, 360 degrees. I believe this find will be long remembered as one of the great classic pockets of China minerals, and I was happy to pick this one up at Tucson 2011. I had not seen many for sale, in a number of years, of this size and significance level. Joe Budd Photos