NATIVE Tellurium with Nagyagite and Alabandite - Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania

NATIVE Tellurium with Nagyagite and Alabandite

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Parallel striated bladed crystals of metallic silvery-yellow crystals of Native Tellurium measuring to 2.6cm are embedded in a vein of grey-black-brown Alabandite with some platy crystals of Nagyagite. The main concentration of Nagyagite is in a cellular crystalline white 'Dolomite' with brown Sphalerite, the platy metallic grey crystals of Nagyagite measuring to 1cm+ overgrown by the Sphalerite and 'Dolomite'. A historically important specimen displays two type locality species, namely Nagyagite and Alabandite, with the addition of Native Tellurium from Sacar'mb (Nagy'g), Romania. The specimen also comes with an old R. S. Mineralien-Niederlage Freiberg for 12 old German Marks.