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Sperrylite
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Sperrylite - platinum arsenide - is recorded from a remarkable number of localities worldwide, but very few have produced the size and quality of crystals as Zapadnaya mine, Talnakh, Noril'sk, Taimyr Peninsula, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. This miniature specimen is a really beautiful example. It features a large cluster (to 1.3 cm across) of very bright, silvery, intergrown cubo-octahedral Sperrylite crystals sat gracefully upon characteristic brassy Chalcopyrite matrix with the odd black Magnetite micro-crystal. The rear of the crystal aggregate is quite flat, but from the front display direction that shape is wonderful. The crystal faces are mirror bright and reveal a network of fractures, but these do not appear to affect the stability of the crystal. This specimen was formerly in a very famous and prominent German private collection until 2016. A wonderful, and large, Sperrylite crystal aggregate.
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