Baryte, Orpiment

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This is one of the very top, if not the top, small cabinet specimen from a small find a year ago of a pocket containing baryte crystals dramatically set on bright fiery-orange-red orpiment crystals. To give you some idea, this specimen was wrapped up in a drawer in the room of the Russian who brought them in, and only brought out to show select people. It is a TOP GEM QUALITY baryte crystal set right on a bed of intense bright orange-red orpiment famous from this locality. The baryte measures 1.5 cm, and is complete, glassy and terminated. Only a handful of the specimens from this pocket did not have major damage.